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		tjogin on July 31, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why the dollar is going to collapse Does it absolutely have to be a country to be relevant? The EU share the same currency. I don't know for sure, but I can't quite think of a reason why economies absolutely have to be countries.

graphene on July 31, 2009 [–]

Eurozone != EU

When you sum the GDPs of Euro using countries, you get 12.23 trillion dollars, or slightly less than the USA's GDP (http://www03.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=eurozone+gdp+vs+USA+g...).

How the size of an economy correlates with its resillience remains an entrirely different question IMHO.

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