I found something to support the Shocking Economics video

it is a website by American Freedom University (Shocking Economics is a global educational project)

http://shockingeconomics.com/AmericanFreedomUniversity.com/Shocking_Economics.html

the details in the video are current as of 1 Oct 2007.
and are based on details by IMF (2006) and US Bureau of Economic Analysis.

alternatively, if you guys are interested, you may want to check out the GDP of countries and GSP (gross state product) of states (of US) at the websites below:

Countries GDP
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)

States GSP
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_GDP_(nominal)

hmm, is GSP similar to GDP?

anyw, the GDP page is updated in 2007
but the GSP one reflects only details of 2006 stuff

so im not very sure if you can use the facts ):

however i found out that it is true that USA's GDP far exceeds that of Japan (#2) and Germany (#3)
here are the IMF 2007 stats:

USA 13,843,825million
Japan 4,383,762million
Germany 3,322,147million.

USA's GDP is clearly more than 3x that of Japan and more than 4x Germany.


- Jasmine K