I agree other countries can survive and grow on their own but there will be massive problems worldwide when western/rich countries go down.Quote from Visaria:
"As for the US being the most important economy for the world, there is a sea change going on right now; recently car sales in emerging economies (such as Brazil, China) are outpacing those of the US, Europe and Japan; oil consumption in emerging markets is increasing, while in the developed world it is contracting; the whole world does not depend on American consumption anymore â 60% of total exports are now going to the emerging world when one includes E. Europe; the US is still a large economy but it is not growing, while the growth in the emerging world is and will continue to be strong
âPeople still think of emerging market economies as poor cousins, but because 80% of the worldâs people are here, in aggregate the consumption is huge.â; these are not saturated markets and they are growing rapidly "
There is a fatal flaw/problem with the world economy right from the start which I do not know. Somebody will have to help me regarding this.