As long as I’m in chart mode, here’s one for GDP growth during the pandemic. It shows roughly the same countries as the previous charts, namely our peer countries in Europe:
The United States is the purple bar. As you can see, we’re roughly in the top third, with a GDP decline of only 2.9 percent over the past year. Not the greatest, but not bad either. Better than France, Germany, Italy, and the UK anyway.
