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Spider Jerusalem

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1. The answer to why the US is 10th in GDP per capita is very simple
Sat Nov 9, 2019, 07:00 AM
Nov 2019

the top 9 are tiny countries or in some cases effectively city-states (the most populous is the UAE, which has fewer people than the NYC metro area) that either have a high concentration of finance/corporate/banking interests (Switzerland, Luxembourg, Macau, Hong Kong) or that are oil exporters (Norway, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE, Brunei). If NYC were a country it'd be in the top 5.

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