> The US economy depends on the country's position of world hegemon

Unfortunately, the data doesn't back this up. The US economy is actually one of the least trade-dependent nations in the world.

27% of GDP is trade-oriented (The value of imports and exports as a function of GDP), while the global average is 63%. The US is so developed, that even if the country was completely cut off from the world and operated as an internal economy it would still remain the world's largest.

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AnthonyMouse 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That's mostly a result of you using percentages rather than dollars and the US being one of the largest countries. 27% of US GDP is 165% of Germany's GDP and Germany is the third largest economy in the world after the US and China.

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OscarTheGrinch 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Become a hermit kingdom to own the libs.

At a certain point we have to ask: what is the point of politics? Who are we doing all this civilisation stuff for? Is a nation an engine of prosperity to enrich the lives of its people, or a life support system for the Dear Leader?

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mndgs 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Nonsense. If 27% of GDP is suddenly gone, how US economy could be the largest? (rest of the world can substitute US trade between itself)

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oceanplexian 8 hours ago | parent [-]

The US Economy is 53% larger than the next largest, China, in terms of real GDP (Not fake PPP nonsense). 28T vs 18T.

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		PPP is more relevant than gdp nominal.
	▲	ben_w 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		How is PPP "fake"? Nominal only matters specifically for trade, which in this hypothetical is the thing the USA is expressly failing to do.

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llm_nerd 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>The US is so developed, that even if the country was completely cut off from the world and operated as an internal economy it would still remain the world's largest.

That's a pretty enormous assumption. The US economy tends to crash into a smouldering ruin on the tiniest fluctuation in the inputs. The notion that you could abolish 27% of the real GDP and everything else just continues is not reality based. The US is barrelling towards a natural debt limit and that alone is going to be utter catastrophe for an economy that is fuelled by an insane amount of debt spending. The fact that some of the cons, like Trump and Graham, are trying to extract as much as they can as quickly as they can is telling enough.

The US economy is a tenuous mirage. Like Americans constantly love showing the fun charts demonstrating that various backwater, poor, Methville states with negligible business or industry have a higher GDP / capita than most developed nations. Sure they do.