# THEY'RE RIGHT BEHIND US!!!

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**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\
**Created:** [August 16, 2010, 8:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/theyre-right-behind-us/159147 "2010-08-16T08:00:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2010, 8:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/theyre-right-behind-us/159147/1 "2010-08-16T08:00:35Z")

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China passed Japan to take the spot of the world’s #2 economy. US is still 3 times larger, though according to one Goldman analyst’s completely made up number they will pass us in 2027.

[http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-16/china-economy-passes-japan-s-in-second-quarter-capping-three-decade-rise.html](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-16/china-economy-passes-japan-s-in-second-quarter-capping-three-decade-rise.html)

> China led the world out of last year’s global recession with an [economy](http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=CNGDPYOY:IND) that’s more than 90-times bigger than when leader [Deng Xiaoping](http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Deng%20Xiaoping&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1&partialfields=-wnnis:NOAVSYND&lr=-lang_ja) ditched hard-line Communist policies in favor of free-market reforms in 1978. The country of 1.3 billion people will overtake the U.S., where annual GDP is about $14 trillion, as the world’s largest economy by 2027, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. chief economist [Jim O’Neill](http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Jim%20O%E2%80%99Neill&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1&partialfields=-wnnis:NOAVSYND&lr=-lang_ja).

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**Author:** ![LUKE\_L](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/luke_l/32/7462_2.png) [@LUKE\_L](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LUKE_L)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2010, 9:14am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/theyre-right-behind-us/159147/2 "2010-08-16T09:14:44Z")

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“No wonder this circuit failed…It says ‘MADE IN JAPAN’…”

Other than that I got nothing…:shrug:

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**Author:** ![Motocrossx23](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/motocrossx23/32/5120_2.png) [@Motocrossx23](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Motocrossx23)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2010, 9:29am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/theyre-right-behind-us/159147/3 "2010-08-16T09:29:16Z")

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![http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/Motocrossx23/e5fa1971.jpg](http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/Motocrossx23/e5fa1971.jpg)

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**Author:** ![08GT500](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/08gt500/32/5417_2.png) [@08GT500](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/08GT500)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2010, 10:21am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/theyre-right-behind-us/159147/4 "2010-08-16T10:21:03Z")

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lol