At the End of 2009, Japan Probably Still Ahead of China as Number 2 Economy
The Wall Street journal summarizes the yearend country economic data * The International Monetary Fund, in its latest World Economic Outlook from October, forecast Japan’s annual economic output for 2009, in U.S. dollars at market exchange rates, at $5.049 trillion. * The IMF had an outdated estimate for China of $4.758 trillion. But China’s National …