[lbo-talk] Austerity In The Face Of Weakness

[Jordan Hayes]

DRR writes:


> World GDP, 2009, Largest Industrializing Countries ... by population
> [...]
> Top 10 countries... $12.4 trillion

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Not sure where you got these numbers; IMF says that the 2009 US 
(nominal) GDP is $14.3T, so the top-10 is certainly greater than that. 
The top-10 population countries includes the US and Japan ($4.5T), 
together some 35% of total world GDP.

/jordan