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Visualizing Where The Money's Made In America
The U.S. Department of Commerce and its Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) recently released its statistics on gross domestic product (GDP) by metropolitan area for 2014. The BEA determines the statistics for each metropolitan area as the sum of the GDP originating in all industries in the area. The data is the sub-state counterpart of the nationwide GDP. It is the most comprehensive measure of economic activity.
HowMuch.net built a map to provide a 3D visualization of the GDP by metropolitan area, seen below. The higher the cone rising out of the map, the greater the GDP in that area. In analyzing the data, we found that the top 20 metropolitan areas represent over 52% of the total GDP in the United States. GDP grew 2.3% for all metropolitan areas in 2014, after increasing 1.9% in 2013.
As shown by the map, the New York metropolitan area, which includes Newark and Jersey City,lead the country with $1.5 trillion in GDP. The area had GDP growth of 2.4% in 2014. The New York metropolitan area provided almost 10% of the total GDP for the entire country.
The Greater Los Angeles area was second with $866 billion in GDP, with an increase of 2.3% over 2013. This was followed by the Chicago metropolitan area with $610 billion and growth of 1.8%. In fourth was the Houston metro area with $525 billion. Dallas, another Texas metro area, had $504 billion in GDP.
GDP By State
We also broke down the GDP by state. We calculated that the top 5 states contributed 40% of the overall GDP for the United States as follows:
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California: $2.11 trillion, 13% of overall GDP
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Texas: $1.46 trillion, 9.5% of overall GDP
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New York: $1.28 trillion, 8.4% of overall GDP
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Florida: $769 billion, 4.8% of overall GDP.
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Illinois: $680 billion, 4.3% of overall GDP.
Effect of Population
One important factor for GDP appears to be the population for both the state and the metropolitan areas. New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas and Houston are the five most densely populated metropolitan areas in that order. Further, California, Texas and New York have the highest populations by state in that order. There appears to be a relationship between GDP output and the population for a geographical area.
The Final Analysis
The largest metropolitan areas contributed the greatest amount of GDP for the country. According to our analysis, the top 20 metropolitan areas contributed over half of the United State’s GDP. The New York metropolitan area contributed nearly 10% to the GDP by itself. In terms of a breakdown by state, the top 5 states contributed around 40% of the entire country’s GDP. California alone contributed over 13% of the total GDP for the country.
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That's a lot of wheel barrels.
Porn (includes all of Hollywood), oil, Mafia activities (includes money printing), prostitution (greater D.C. area).
I take exception to the statement: "The largest metropolitan areas contributed the greatest amount of GDP for the country."
To rephrase properly: "The largest metropolitan areas sucked up the greatest amount of GDP for the country."
...and another gem: There appears to be a relationship between GDP output and the population for a geographical area. Now there's analysis worthy of any 8 year old. "...appears to be..." How 'bout there IS a relationship? Did this cost any of my tax money (not that I pay any)?
When I was reading that line the exact same thoughts came to mind.
It was like - Really, appears to be, Duuooh!
"Where The Money's Made"
"California: $2.11 trillion, 13% of overall GDP"
The next time you fucking trailer-park "Mid-west" slackers who reap the majority of "tax" dollars ...cry about the "niggers" and "Mexicans"...take a look at your fucking myopic, white-ass mirror (if trailers have them)!!!!!
"Amerikka" is poor, white trash.
When the fuck are you ever willing to admit it, and become something else?
Fighting each other ("niggers" and "Mexicans") is what the rich want...you give it to them.
You can "learn" and rise above and help take this NWO out.
The planet is only 49% "Caucasian" (including Asians, who identify as "white")....WTFU....
California is where the Money ... Shots are:
http://www.thepornster.com/video/427/
I bet you enjoy it, from the receiver's end. Scram ho.
Don't feed the NSA troll.
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Just think how much California GDP will be when a glass of water is $50.
So that's where all the physical gold is? I don't believe it!
Wheelbarrows. Not wheel barrels.
I weep for the future. You see that big spike over NYC? You won't be a part of that. Ever.
That's OK. Big spikes tend to attract big dips, and I hate gravity sports.
Looks like a good map of the areas to stay away from... Too much traffic, niggers/spics and accompanying crime, noise, pollution. The poor life quality areas.
isn't this a situation that calls for a break-up of the dollar into regional currencies? or is it only when it's the eurozone?
our big spike, interestingly, isn't in the eurozone. it's in London. NYC's twin in the business of being the financial capitals of the world
For once I totally agree with you Ghordius.
The dollar is as artificial a homogenization of economic activity as the euro, and equally destructive to prosperity. Only sound money can bring prosperity back to the world and the way to do that is to let the free market and it's participants CHOOSE their preferred form of money/currency.
Such choices tend to gravitate towards things that hold their value over long periods of time and are not continually debased "for our own good."
I think 5 crooks share it.
Jews comprise over 50% of all billionaires in the US. That's where the money's made. How the Ashkenazi Jews Conquered the West => http://wp.me/p4OZ4v-2mp
Jew York, Jew York, big city of dreams...
Sing it Snoop!
Is it PRODUCTION or is it TAKINGS?
New York - Banking, Hollywood - MSM, Washington DC - political activism, Miami - 2nd home spot for New York & Washington bankers & political activists.
Quel surprise.
O-H-I-O for the quiet entry.
GDP is a totally bogus measure of value. GDP = unreal economic output -- e.g., NYC.
Yep wonder how much of our trade deficit is attributable to those huge metropilitian areas.
Back in the day (early ‘90’s) Tokyo’s Imperial Palace was 'worth' more than the entire state of California.
"statistics on gross domestic product (GDP) by metropolitan area for 2014"
This may not be current.
If true, why are Newark and Jersey City such shitholes? Is it the magic windowless buildings with the layers of security inside?
- Ned
3 crooks in Chicago share all that money.
Good Lord. Illinois is completely bankrupt. GDP?? hahaha.. EBT for the GDP!!!
And why isn't Detroit blowing red out the backside of that map?
Drugs excluded from the measurement
bankruptcy does a black ruled city good.
How can Chicago be #3? Aren't they basically broke as a city? Actually, beyond broke, owe millions upon millions.
Because states like Illinois have their wealth stolen and distributed to cock suckers in blood red boot strap states. Look it up, I'm tired of fighting ignorant Hicks on the internet. Go buy some fucking metal with your disability checks.
Hopefully they can elect enough Brownbacks to cut them all off of the largesse of the metro areas they would never have the balls to even visit.
I do not get a disability check.
But I think that I'll buy me some more of that Copper Jacketed Lead, Girly Man, Yeah...set into Brass casings and loaded with Guncotton...you know...Nitrated Cellulose, Girly Man, with the hands as soft as a girl's hands?.
You just gave me some more incentive, Girly Man.
Most big cities are simply the focus point of wealth. Large corporations reside there, but many times the actual production and consumption are spread over much wider areas. Houston is a big GDP spike, but how much of that "wealth" is actually generated in the oil fields hundreds or even thousands of miles away?
What this actually shows is not NYC contributing 10% to the GDP total but rather NYC sucking 10% out of the rest of the nation.
I'm a little surprised it's not more.
Since the growth is 100% funded and manufactured by the Bernanke Bucks and FED printing, we should stop the facade of this being growth.
It is not growth, it is a payment scheme!
Its a propped up bullshit economy.
Take out government and financial "services" and let's take another look and see what part of the country are adding value and which parts are living off banksters and government rackets.
Duh! Who wrote this? Are we supposed to argue with this authors summation? Is there something I am missing here?
This graphic isn't very helpful. To fix the graphic, make it in the form of a topographic graphic (on top of real topography) with altitude at any point being:
altitude = productive_GDP / population;
One could make another graphic based upon:
altitude = destructive_GDP / population;
And another graphic based upon:
altitude = GDP / population;
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Note: any wasteful production should be part of destructive_GDP.
Obviously most military and government expenses are destructive_GDP, and ALL transfer of wealth is waste... destructive waste. Anyone who believes moving a dollar from one [more-deserving] pocket into another [less-deserving] pocket has no idea what production or product mean.
It would be interesting to see this graph change over time.
In the NY, NJ area how much of that $1.56 trillion belongs to Goldman Sachs?
On one those pins is where Lloyd tBlankfein is at.
Damn fly-over country. Constantly pulling the rest of the country down.... Just imagine if those hicks in the sticks would contribute like those god-like people on wall street!
+ 1000
The damn hicks in the sticks are so dumb. They could do it so easily if they would just learn how to punch some damn buttons instead of producing something of value.
Oh didn't ya know?
Those women jus luv dem Girly Men with their soft hands with no callouses.
At least you can laugh at the Wall Street FAGGOTS.
They actually have to pay some bitch to get some.
No real woman wants to have a bitch whiner with Girly Man hands as a husband. They seek out real men. There is no attraction. So the Girly Men either pay for sex after the divorce or to the whores.
Now the whores are cheaper in the long run for the Girly Men...But paying for sex?
Fuckin' laughable.
LMAO.
You are correct.
Europe is reaping what they have sown: girly men that no real woman with a brain will choose to marry and have children with. The men have idealized the women into harpies and the women have molded the men into soft metrosexuals. There is plenty of that happening in the USA: thank you feminists.
But I digress. The meaningless of the information above and the pretty topo map created to give a visual is but another reason to despair.
It doesn't take a brain surgeon to understand that an area with a large population making X dollars can be represented as making "more" than a far less populated area with the population making 2X.
Unless the author can express the information in a per capita manner and exclude monies from governmental sources, it is as useless as the manure pile behind the barn.
Oops, that manure pile has real value, unlike the imaginary value banksters assign to the bullshit they create.
I hope all the soft city boys continue to fly over.
How does California come out on top? Silicon Valley? If so, I think these rankings will be in for some serious revisions once the Tech 2.0 bubble deflates.
Containerized shipping ports
I believe most of what is produced in NY and NJ can be 'shipped' electronically.
The utility of their main product, financial instruments, is waning....waning...gone!
Wow! Illinois produces more than it has in debt...way to go Illinois...for now.
They just have to use their people's lottery money to pay the bills. Makes things work better ya know.
The spikers are making a ton of money selling JNK bonds to your pension fund!! And hey look, they are *ON SALE* - 12% off from last years prices!!
Bit hypocritical to call this bond or that "junk", while standing hip-deep in untreated sewage.
Not a surprise of a handful of less than 500 cities across the globe propped up by Predators are all you need. Many hinterlands can be wastelands and really do not matter when you transact in and direct thru the virtual space. Stage One, you keep the noisy preys in cages (prisons) and Stage Two, you just take no prisoners. Some of these cities will be watering holes for the cronies for the conveniences of the Oligrachs and will be heavily guarded.Some of these cronies are on furloughs from their duties in outposts (strategic sea ports, warehouses of physical wealth, etc). Some versions of Israel today with its settlements going global. McKinsey sells this without the ugly fringe ghettos. So research and fly to where your talents should be. Dubai tried and failed in not surrendering sovereignty to the Oligarchs.
are these figures double seasonally adjusted?
im sure the military bases put out more, but then you really got to realize how fucked up the system is
Are hookers and blow included? I do know that NY, LA, Hou., Dal., Chi, Mia.. have the highest EBT (which supposedly counts as GDP)
I'm guessing rents have a lot to do with the lopsided numbers. I live in a pretty small city...a NY apartment that runs $2000 or more probably goes for $500-$600 here. It provides the exact same thing (except it's probably safer here) and yet NY gets 4X or more credit as far as the GDP counters are concerned. Same thing in a lot of other areas of spending. I like it here better though...I can drive 10 minutes and I'm in endless fields of corn and beans, and I personally know farmers who I could buy stuff from directly if I really had to.
So where is food and feeds produced? Is there any value in those things?
These leeches have no clue . A hard days work, a piece of ass and a quart of beer would kill most city dwellers.
Truck drivers move our country. JIT delivery relies on perfect function of our roads and rails and air. Take those away for three days and you will find out exactly who does the producing and production of what.
When that does happen , EBT shut off perhaps nationwide, I think you don't want to be near any one of those awesome production centers.
America , I hardly knew ya !
True that if you halt all JIT delivery there will be immediate chaos. But - the system will correct itself and function fine yet again, like it used to before JIT. The initial period of chaos won't be armageddon like some think. Things will get done and problems will get solved and not by the govt which only creates problems. Of course truck drivers will play a huge role in the problem solving.
You talk about reality like you read it in a book (progressive propaganda leaflet).
When the beer truck stops making its usual rounds it'll look like Ferguson or Watts in every major metro area. Stop deluding yourself, those people don't have stock piles of beans and band aids, don't have a ready means to reclaim drinking water; but have enjoyed a historic track record of optunistic death and destruction during times of chaos.
People who share your view either have car service to the bunker when the balloon goes up, or they are known by another name: FOOD.
I spent a brief time doing OTR driving...the rest of my working life has been software development, and I just took a break to do something different for awhile. I will say that I've often sized up a new (or old) software colleague and decided that a single run of over 1000 miles would probably be too much for many of them. If done correctly, driving is hard under normal circumstances and often DAMN HARD if anything goes wrong. I have a ton of respect for those guys that have been out there doing that for 5+ years. They earn their money more than almost anybody else I've ever run across.
Well,
Where did you think the newly-printed money goes first?
Farms?
Industry?
No.
It goes to government, financiers, and propagandists.
And their locations track PERFECTLY with this list.
Welcome to SERFDOM.
We've arrived. Only the formalization remains.
So, in short, go fuck yourself Kansas.
Where's the Fed's massive money spike? Printing 10 trillion in 7 years isn't exactly slacking off.