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by sien 3073 days ago
Here is Forbes making the point:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2011/06/28/gdp-for-...

GDP to market cap is worse. The net worth of a country is not it's GDP. The total wealth of the US is about ~90 trillion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_Unite...

The estimates for total wealth, however, are really fraught and fluctuate, as does market cap in other currencies.