Based on what you learned from the article, post your answer to the following question: Is GDP growth a good thing? And are we capturing what we want to capture with our current GDP metric?

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Read the short Planet Money article “Moving Beyond GDP”.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2020/01/14/795623755/moving-beyond-gdp

Then, based on what you learned from the article, post your answer to the following question: Is GDP growth a good thing? And are we capturing what we want to capture with our current GDP metric?

Next, consider this: Following Hurricane Harvey in 2017, CNBC published a story on their website with the headline “Devastating Storm May Ultimately Boost U.S. GDP

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/28/devastating-storm-may-actually-boost-us-gdp-and-push-inflation-higher.html

” This is silly—explain why. Reading the story is not required, but might be helpful.