LA Observed blogs about a California survey in the new Economist, and points out that our state has the sixth-largest economy in the world (ahead of China). That's common knowledge, I think. For a while we were neck-and-neck with France for number five. But Kevin at LA Observed adds:
(Los Angeles County is 10th, ahead of Russia.)
I did not know that.
UPDATE: The Economist text says L.A. County would be the 16th-largest economy in the world, just ahead of Russia, if it were a country by itself. But the Economist graphic puts it at number ten. This LookSmart article might explain the discrepancy, but the facts are a few years old.
posted by Michael Scott Moore |
5:39 PM
