Ms. Rory in the Heart of Texas

Rory doesn’t talk about the current credit crisis too much at the playground or ballet class (sort of a conversation killer), but during her usual scan of Norwegian economic blogs, she noticed this chart that signifies the overwhelming presence that the US has in the global economy, and she is quick to remind us of how good we have it here, and to think globally in our actions, spiritual and otherwise. If only her cousins in the Philippines were two hours north of us…. Good find Rory (thanks, Uncle Jordan).

Each state’s economic output is analogized to another country’s GDP.

Source: http://carls.blogs.com/my_weblog/2007/01/norge_sett_fra_.html

And this:

“The parentheses below each country name is how much additional money you’d have to add to each country’s GDP to make it genuinely fit the US region assigned. The amount of money that’s left over after plugging these countries in is roughly equal to the GDP of Russia, the 11th richest country in the world. That in itself is pretty amazing.”

http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/05/4-national-gdps.html