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China fact of the day
...at $1.2 trillion, Italian GDP is roughly the size of China's, and Italy's total foreign-trade value of $750 billion is only slightly smaller than that of the mainland.
The bottom line: Yes China is an important country, but we should keep matters in perspective. [Question -- hey, then why don't you have an "Italy fact of the day" installment? -- Answer -- because China has started selling soy underwear.]
The quotation is from today's Wall Street Journal, Op-Ed page, "Yuan-derful," and see the Marketplace section on the soy underwear.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on December 17, 2004 at 08:51 AM in Economics | Permalink
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