You didn't link to the CitI GPS study, which makes it kind of hard to check. Besides, their numbers that you quoted directly look moderately plausible, but the numbers you provide in your text are wrong (and you misinterpret their statement, too, by confusing the improvement in GDP with the total GDP--that's the $16 trillion in your text, I think). Or maybe the way you talk about the numbers is wrong. I can't tell! But I am absolutely positive that the GDP of the United States is not $36 billion dollars, which is what you said it was. The GDP of the United States is about $21 trillion. That's $21,000 billion.

If you are off by a factor of almost a thousand and you don't care, it's a problem. Why do you even give numbers if you don't care if they're even remotely correct?

I don't see why all the resistance. You made some mistake or the study made some mistake; people make mistakes. Figure out what it was and fix it, or if for some reason it's not obvious to you, ask someone else to look at it (I would have except you didn't link your source). Either way, fix it and move on. Good grief!

In other news, I am a mile and a half tall. And I weigh about as much as a peppercorn.