Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by mikro2nd 1738 days ago

  Russia's too big of a market
Russia's GDP: $1.710 trillion

Texas GSP: $1.9 trillion

1 comments

So Texas is also too big a market?
Texas is big enough of a market that it can effectively define textbook standards for the rest of the US, so yes.

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2012/06/21/how-texas-inflic...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/20/us/texas-history-1836-pro...

Just trying to put some context around "big".

FWIW: China GDP $16.64 trillion