China takes over as world's largest ecomomy?

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China takes over as world's largest ecomomy?

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China Just Overtook The US As The World's Largest Economy

Sorry, America. China just overtook the US to become the world's largest economy, according to the International Monetary Fund.

Chris Giles at the Financial Times flagged up the change. He also alerted us in April that it was all about to happen.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/china-ov ... z3FfwE0oaE
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To boot China loaned the largest portion of the current US debt so double whammy.
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GordonH wrote:To boot China loaned the largest portion of the current US debt so double whammy.


Who would have ever thought that a Communist country would every hold the debt of America?
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It was only matter of time that China would be number 1 with 1.35+ billion people the next economy to keep your eye on is second largest Country by population at 1.25+ billion that is India.

Debt
US 17 trillion+
China 863 billion+
India 376 billion
Oh dear Canada 1.35 trillion+

all in Us dollars
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Great. Now let's sell them all our oil at bargain prices.
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