This change in the U.S. position was not an absolute decline, since the U.S. economy grew at a robust average annual rate of more than 3 percent from 1963 to 2008 (the economies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom also grew during this time)
This change in the U.S. position was not an absolute decline, since the U.S. economy grew at a robust average annual rate of more than 3 percent from 1963 to 2008 (the economies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom also grew during thistime)