re: World economic rankings.

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As I'm explaining to you multiple times this is the best way to show the status of the overall economy. Total production alone does not tell the story well and per capita alone does not tell the story well. The mesh of these two, however, is much more illuminating and describing the tier and status of the economies being analyzed

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No. You are using flawed data to reach an outcome. By that very nature, the out come is flawed.

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Yes and by being an economy based on petro exports, there is a natural ceiling which prohibits this non-advanced economy from growing is total GDP to be in the discussion.

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Wrong. They could expand in many ways due to advances in many fields.
You are truly missing all the points in everything.

It goes back to what other posters have stated, you are not looking at the whole picture.

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Just as China, who has a bigger potential total GDP, is not in the discussion with America because it's per capita is so bad. That's the whole reason you look at both of them together to get an idea of where the economy is rank in terms of tier and class. Then you compare those economies and how they are developing in terms of percentage of GDP growth to compare like economies to like.

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LOL! Horse shite. You still are not grasping the fact that per capita is flawed. You just admitted that Qatar is not an accurate picture.

Yet, with China, you want it to be accurate.

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Yeah. Nobody said that trade wouldn't benefit both parties to the transaction.

The question is why this is shocking to people like you.

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These are people that would try to build a skyscraper by themselves. No workers. Because if you hired help, you’d just make them richer. So they’ll try to build a skyscraper by themselves. With hand tools.

The OP’s chart illustrates exactly why the tariffs will work. The rest of the world needs the US, not the other way around.

What a horrible take by the OP….

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Folks, this is MAGA economics for you.

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Ater days of arguing that the US importing goods is reason china has become wealthy, and we are in “decline” (which we aren’t)… he now thing relative wealth is t important. It’s entertaining as is fascinating.

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Roger, you’re so unlikeable

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Ypu always know you’re winning they start attacking the person, not the position.

This is like the good ol’ days around here. Vegas Bengal, Rex, and BamaATL would be so proud!

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You are using flawed data to reach an outcome. By that very nature, the out come is flawed.

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You've yet to explain why you think it's flawed.

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Wrong. They could expand in many ways due to advances in many fields.

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They could, but they still have a hard cap, for many reasons.

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It goes back to what other posters have stated, you are not looking at the whole picture.

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The ignorance and irony of this statement

I made you a chart to show you a more full picture.

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LOL! Horse shite. You still are not grasping the fact that per capita is flawed.

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I"m not only looking at per capita. This has been explained to you 4-5 times now, but you still come back to the same silliness.

The "2023 Index" uses the rankings for total GDP AND per capita GDP, to give a whole picture of the class of economies being analyzed.

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The whole point of your argument is to say tariffs are bad.

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They're suboptimal, to be more accurate of my stance.

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You have nothing to base that on.

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We have lots of data and work from actual academics.

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This whole thread is proof of it.

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It is, in fact, not.

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You can talk all day about how great we have it, but that does not, has never, and will never prove that we would not have reached this level with tariffs.

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Why are you ignoring that we're doing so much better than these countries who rely on the tariffs you want to implement?

We see what happens when countries choose the suboptimal path, and it's worse economic growth by economic tier.

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It won’t be long before we fall behind

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Look up the world “asymptote” sometime. And realize percentages are 1/x.

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He did. It's right there

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He did not. He's not focusing on the mesh of the 2 concepts and only focusing on one at a time.

Here, I'll help you:

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He's answered that.

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He has not. He's only responded specifically to GDP OR PCGDP, and not a mesh of the 2.