Sunday, February 13, 2011

How America is doing compared to the rest of the world

During the state visit by Chinese President Hu Jintao, it was easy to imagine that world politics and global economics had been reduced to a two-power game between a democratic America and an authoritarian China. But the reality is much broader.


Despite talk of American decline, the United States remains the world's largest national economy, at over $14 trillion per year, with a very high per capita income: $41,000. Right next to us is the oft-ignored European Union. The combined economy of

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