Economic growth is best measured excluding inflation, but the chart in the tweet uses "current prices" aka the 2008 values are in 2008-dollars and the 2023 valu

Economic growth is best measured excluding inflation, but the chart in the tweet uses "current prices" aka the 2008 values are in 2008-dollars and the 2023 values are in 2023-dollars, including all the inflation that happened in between. (I've seen actual economists get confused by this meaning of "current", mislabeling a "current dollars" chart from 2019 as being in 2019-dollars, even though it wasn't inflation-adjusted at all.) Using the World Bank's figures in 2015-dollars https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD?locations=US-EU https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD?location... GDP 2008 US: 16.38T EU: 13.19T US/EU: 1.24 GDP 2022 US: 20.95T EU: 15.21T US/EU: 1.38 (2023 not yet available) Ratio of ratios: 1.11, so the US has increased its lead by about 11%, which is not nothing, but also less dramatic than it looks to me in the "current prices" chart.