Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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The EU is much bigger economically than the US...and it's STILL smaller area wise. |
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The EU has a "much bigger" economy because it has more people. However, the per capita GDP in the U.S. is "much bigger" than in the E.U. |
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Made...past tense...pre WWII. And it's STILL a fair question...Germany stands alone and is compared to 50 states? California is bankrupt...just the the US is. Germany is there or on it's way...I don't keep track of Europe ponzi schemes...NOBODY is doing "WELL"...not even the Chinese. We're at a peak...I think down is the only way to go...the world is 80% poor making less than $10 a day. It's not sustainable with "peak oil extraction". |
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Germany IMPORTS most of their energy. Germany’s dependence on imported fossil fuels | Clean Energy Wire "While the whole of the EU imported 53.4 percent of its energy consumption in 2014, Germany’s dependency was even higher with an import share of 61.4 percent – only slightly below the previous year’s all-time high of 62.6 percent." • German electricity imports from Europe 2014 | Statistic Germany IMPORTS much of their electricity: "The statistic represents Germany's electricity imports from other European countries in 2014, sorted by country. During this year, Germany imported around 14.8 terawatt hours worth of electricity from France. " Germany has grown PAST their ability to be self sufficient...the US because of it's vastness has not...yet. |
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How about we compare America to France right after the civil war? Why do you get caught up in the details? Germany is being compared to a nation of 50 states, the entire US...and is the size of Montana. I think they did/are doing pretty darn well. Why? Probably because they're white. If you look..there IS a trend...ALL the nice places are white/Asian with western economies...ALL the really sh!tty places are black/brown. |
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I still don't understand why you think landmass is a big consideration in economic output. Even today the US has a lot of unused land. What does that have to do with anything? Land doesn't have much affect on GDP. Just ask Luxembourg. |
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"What is the GDP and how is it calculated? Written out, the equation for calculating GDP is: GDP = private consumption + gross investment + government investment + government spending + (exports – imports). For the gross domestic product, “gross” means that the GDP measures production regardless of the various uses to which the product can be put." Take the US today... Government provides "arguably" about 20% of that number. The US government borrows over a $ trillion a year and pumps it into the economy...counting towards GDP. It's NOT an accurate number. "Even so, the measure is still imperfect. Suppose China has a GDP per capita of $1,500, while Ireland has a GDP per capita of $15,000. This doesn't necessarily mean that the average Irish person is 10 times better off than the average Chinese person. GDP per capita doesn't account for how expensive it is to live in a country. Purchasing power parity (PPP) attempts to solve this by comparing how many goods and services an exchange-rate-adjusted unit of money can purchase in different countries – comparing the price of an item, or basket of items, in two countries after adjusting for the exchange rate between the two, in effect. Real per capita GDP, adjusted for purchasing power parity, is a heavily refined statistic to measure true income, which is an important element of well-being. An individual in New York might make $100,000 a year, while an individual in Wyoming might make $50,000 a year. In absolute terms, the worker in New York is better off. But if a year's worth of food, clothing and other items costs three times as much in New York than Wyoming, however, the worker in Wyoming has a higher real income." The numbers are ALL heavily "massaged". WHY are you still discussing this? It's a SMALL side point. America became a superpower AFTER WWII. BEFORE WWII...MANY countries had and lost that title. America WILL someday lose that title. I don't know if it will be China...I doubt it. I think we'll have a WORLD depression when WWIII starts and after the war...the financial systems will collapse. The US military...with bases in "every" country...holds the current world system together. "Without Rome there to keep things going"...things will revert to localized...we'll have a "dark ages", 3/4 of the worlds population will dies of starvation...and the world will start organizing itself again. It may be a LONG time before WWIII...the world is pretty interconnected. The wealthy have business in most all the major countries. Investors rarely attack those they've invested in. But the drag of the poor...the amount of resources being consumed. It's unsustainable. 80% can't live on the labor of the other 20%. 80% of the worlds population lives on less than $10 a day. THIS is the problem today. Not GDP back at the turn of the last century. The problem is THIS century. America with 51% minorities is NOT the America that was 90% white in the late 1950s. It's not "better". We just have more toys...more distractions. The life expectancy has been going down the last few years...why do you think that is? They'll SAY it's because of the "opioid menace"...but it's not...it's due to the changing demographics. America has never had so many poor. As the numbers of minorities rise, the death age comes down. The "opioid scare" is just another way to fleece us...more "war on drugs" crap because their #1 moneymaker, fighting cannabis, is becoming legalized...it's not producing like it did. They NEED a reason to be funded. |
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"Gross domestic product is the best way to measure a country's economy. GDP is the total value of everything produced by all the people and companies in the country." (Kimberly Amadeo, president of World Market Watch.) Since it was originally indicated that other countries economies were way better than ours, I used GDP (because it's the best way to measure a country's economy. See quote above) to refute those ridiculous assertions. I am still discussing this because I was asked to compare the American economy to the German and French economies at different time periods. But since you don't like the answers, you've decided that someone with 20 years senior-level experience in economic analysis (Kimberly Amadeo, not me), doesn't know what they're talking about when it comes to the economy. |
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I said the US is HUGE compared to those individual countries and it's NOT a fair comparison...YOU keep going on and on about it. The US has going on 400 million people...Germany has 82 million. The US is HUGE...Germany is the size of Montana. It's NOT a fair comparison. A FAIR comparison would be the entire EU...but you disagree. I'm done. |
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BTW - US per capita GDP dwarfs both German and EU. |
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