Article • Dean Baker’s Beat the Press
Fact-based, data-driven research and analysis to advance democratic debate on vital issues shaping people’s lives.
Center for Economic and Policy Research
1611 Connecticut Ave. NW
Suite 400
Washington, DC 20009
Tel: 202-293-5380
Fax: 202-588-1356
https://cepr.net
The Washington Post had a front page column that waxed philosophically on the meaning of the debt downgrade by S&P. It concluded by telling readers:
“The U.S. economy is still nearly three times the size of China’s.”
According to the IMF’s projections, the United States economy is currently less than 40 percent larger than China’s on a purchasing power parity basis. The IMF projects that China will surpass the United States as the world’s largest economy by the end of the term of the president elected next year.