America is Very Rich. What Do We Spend Our Money On?
<p>I don’t know if you realize just how much richer Americans are than other rich people around the world.</p>
<p>We talk a lot about the ways in which the American economy is broken — and it is broken in a bunch of ways. People on both sides of the political spectrum seem to fervently believe that something is critically wrong with our economy.</p>
<p>But by many measures, America’s economy has gained ground on most of the rest of the “rich” world, despite the way things may feel. A <a href="https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/04/13/the-lessons-from-americas-astonishing-economic-record" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">recent</a> <a href="https://www.economist.com/briefing/2023/04/13/from-strength-to-strength" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">set</a> of articles in the <em>Economist</em> laid out the math, which I found pretty surprising:</p>
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