Wednesday, August 18, 2010

History of World GDP

In the effort of always keeping things in historical context, let's zoom way out:

Interesting perspective (I stole this from The Big Picture) on how China and India are simply mean reverting to their traditional contributions to world GDP. Ritholtz rightly points out that this is a function of population size first and that the industrial and technological revolutions catapulted the US forward (an advantage that will inevitably be dispersed in the coming years).


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