Interesting presentation – the world’s GDP by the relative financial sizes of nations projected onto a world presentation. I can’t remember seeing this format before.
No big surprise that the US and China are number one and two.
I DO have reservations on the $17 Trillion China – given their banking problems, the self-inflicted demographic problems, and the well-known history of lying about their numbers, who knows if that number is close or not. Heck, it could be half that and still be #2 (which many of us believe it is, in more ways than just financial).
I am also surprised at how little the Russian GDP is: $1.9 Trillion. For a “superpower,” that’s dang little. Either they rattle their own chains a lot, over-relying on their previous Eastern Bloc states during the Cold War, or are still pretty good at Marketing.
And if you are one of the “smallest” countries (table in the source post), how must if feel that Elon Musk is worth more than all of your island nations combined a couple/few times over?
(H/T: Zerohedge)
