America's fastest dying cities

[Kevin]

For our international friends, I like this map. :) I guess it has some inaccuracies, but it punctuates the sheer size of the US economy.

Yeah it doesn't quite match when I do some table matching between https://www.cia.govbrary/publications/th...r/2001rank.html (for the world) and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._...P_%28nominal%29 for the states (I couldn't find a better source for the states, I'm not a huge fan of relying on wikipedia but I had issues getting the BEA stuff to display nicely and it was easy to verify the wiki info).

But yeah it does show the stupid size of the US economy, though I do like how the CIA fact book lists the European Union as a single entity in it's rankings to get a good comparison there and it makes sense to rank all the countries that do accept the Euro clumped like that. The individual countries are still listed, so it does mean you have to subtract 2 from all the numbers to get the 'real' ranking since the world and the EU are in the list.