Read the short Planet Money article "Moving Beyond GDPLinks to an external site.". Then, based on what you learned from the article, answer 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. GDPLinks to an external site.."