Real Annualized International Trade per Capita

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqXdrZXI8oHW0hp5WTW0vcWc6hYSkOjlVj0qjmcnlK9IG8VApQfBOHFEz-E7k6IPWPD2LTBfrrT3CNrpwjiTzTUWZ7gOOVyqOoFiFs8Wznl9ACXVUaVZMo4BbWKtlrpYnZRD4ebI1EIZE/s1600/International+Trade+per+Capita+-+Long-Term.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqXdrZXI8oHW0hp5WTW0vcWc6hYSkOjlVj0qjmcnlK9IG8VApQfBOHFEz-E7k6IPWPD2LTBfrrT3CNrpwjiTzTUWZ7gOOVyqOoFiFs8Wznl9ACXVUaVZMo4BbWKtlrpYnZRD4ebI1EIZE/s320/International+Trade+per+Capita+-+Long-Term.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Click to enlarge.</span><br /><br />Let's zoom in for a closer look.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVufb153qC-vQyaRU4ygHPrz7sGzl8nxM8Ynh8hr1-hNbov3GhvAlw8PGD4kh2ERrvQf7t38uVAo1dqsFG2KyAE7pgNW-Lzyx4uIn3dhZGwfvueQ7LbHA1vETDSKhIxGBgYOoGx4OVjMk/s1600/International+Trade+per+Capita+-+Short-Term.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVufb153qC-vQyaRU4ygHPrz7sGzl8nxM8Ynh8hr1-hNbov3GhvAlw8PGD4kh2ERrvQf7t38uVAo1dqsFG2KyAE7pgNW-Lzyx4uIn3dhZGwfvueQ7LbHA1vETDSKhIxGBgYOoGx4OVjMk/s320/International+Trade+per+Capita+-+Short-Term.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Click to enlarge.</span><br /><br />Sorry, China. It looks like we're pretty much done being your exponential growth engine.<br /><br /><b>August 11, 2013</b><br /><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/russellflannery/2013/08/11/china-faces-years-of-slowing-gdp-growth-top-strategist-says/">China Faces Years Of Slowing GDP Growth, Top Strategist Says</a><br /><br /><div style="color: #666666;"><i>“We need to get used to the fact that the boom is over,” said Andy Rothman, China macro strategist at brokerage CLSA. <span style="color: red;">“The days when you could just roll out of bed and make money, or the days when you could expect that the growth rate for most things was going to be faster next year — that’s done. We should expect that for the foreseeable future, every year on average, most major economic data points are going to be growing more slowly.”</span></i></div><br />It could never happen here of course. This is America. Thanks to <a href="http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=mzd">perma-ZIRP</a>, booms will never end again! Hurray!<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="236" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/yFFljFuGfmc" width="420"></iframe><br /><br /><div style="color: #666666;"><i>Don't mind us we're just spilling our guts<br />If this is love I don't wanna be hanging by the neck<br />Before an audience of death</i></div><br /><b>See Also:</b><br /><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2010/06/sarcasm-disclaimer.html">Sarcasm Disclaimer</a><br /><br /><b>Source Data:</b><br /><a href="http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=mz9">St. Louis Fed: Custom Chart</a>

Real Annualized International Trade per Capita

Click to enlarge. Let's zoom in for a closer look. Click to enlarge. Sorry, China. It looks like we're pretty much done being your e...

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