Five days a week (or more), millions of Americans leave their homes to go to “work”. What does it all add up to? Gross Domestic Product, the sum of all final goods and services.
Below, we have the United States’ $14.1 trillion GDP from 2007, which means you are also looking at the output from the largest economy on Earth that year.
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What do you see? For those game to squeeze their mind grapes, please put any thoughts or questions in the comments to guide future research. This is only the beginning of digging into GDP…