WE'RE NUMBER TWO!

EUROPEAN UNION PULLS AHEAD OF US AS WORLD'S LARGEST ECONOMY

An article from Rueters exposes the inevtiable, the decline of the US Dollar against the Euro had allowed the EU to pass up the US as the world's largest economy.

The U.S. economy lost the title of "world's biggest" to the euro zone this week as the value of the dollar slumped in currency markets.

Taking the gross domestic product of both economies in 2007, the combined GDP of the 15 countries which use the euro overtook that of the United States when the European currency surged to a record high of more than $1.56 per euro.

The plunge of the dollar is largely responsible for the decline.

Taking the gross domestic product of both economies in 2007, the combined GDP of the 15 countries which use the euro overtook that of the United States when the European currency surged to a record high of more than $1.56 per euro.

"The curious outcome of breaching this latest milestone is that the size of the euro zone's annual output has now exceeded that of the U.S.," the economics department of Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street investment bank, said in a note to clients.

Taking official estimates of 2007 GDP -- $13,843,800 billion for the United States and 8,847,889.1 billion euros for the euro zone -- the economy of the latter passed the United States once converted into dollars, shortly after the euro topped $1.56.

Not all countries in the Eurpoean Union have adopted the Euro, so only the countries in the "Euro zone" are included in the calculation. 12 countries inthe EU do not use the Euro. These countries include Great Britian, Denmark, Sweden, Poland and Hungary.
The population of the Euro Zone 320 million people.

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER EURO, IN THE DESERT OF THE REAL!