A Second American Century Led by People Who Can't Do Arithmetic?

That's what Richard Haass is promising in his Washington Post Outlook piece. He tells readers that the United States is still the world's largest economy and will be for long into the future.

"This country boasts the world’s largest economy; its annual GDP of almost $16 trillion is nearly one-fourth of global output. Compare this figure with $7 trillion for China and $6 trillion for Japan. Per capita GDP in the United States is close to $50,000, somewhere between six and nine times that of Ch...