Record high house prices pushed construction to record shares of GDP.
Health-care spending has reached a record 15% of GDP, dwarfing Britain's 8%, yet 45m Americans lack insurance cover.
Total tax revenues in OECD countries climbed to a record 38% of GDP in 1996, up from 34% of GDP in 1980.
The 2010 budget deficit was a record 32% of GDP and the country was left with 2,800 uncompleted housing developments – some 10,000 homes.
America's current-account deficit is running at a record 6% of GDP this year, and on existing policies it will continue to widen.
The second is that the government proposes to save much of the windfall, giving relief to the currency.The finance minister, Andrés Velasco, expects investment to reach a record 30% of GDP this year.
The latest information on the UK's current account – which includes income from investment and payments to international bodies in addition to trade in goods and services – was running at a record 7% of GDP in the final three months of 2015.
America's overall current-account deficit rose to a record 5% of GDP in the second quarter.Fears about Europe's wobbly recovery were ignited by news that French industrial production fell by 1% in July, leaving it down by 1.7% from a year ago.
The rouble has lost 40% of its value so far this year, inflation is at 9%, stock prices are back to mid-2009 levels, and net capital outflow is likely to reach a record 6% of GDP this year.
And second, the Tory approach would accelerate the reduction of the national debt as a share of national income or GDP, and Labour does not want its commitment to reduce the national debt slower than the Tories up in lights - since they know that many voters are concerned about the doubling of the national debt to a record 80% of GDP since the Crash.
