NPR. Hey there. It's Adrian Ma. So by now we all know that Donald Trump's victory in the presidential election last month was driven in large part by the fact that a lot of voters were just not

happy about the economy the past couple of years. They were feeling the sting of inflation.

And yet there is a sort of disconnect here because there are some pretty strong economic

metrics that show that the economy the past couple years has been doing pretty well,

from cooling inflation to rising

wages to low unemployment and strong consumer spending. And when you put all this together,

it's actually not an exaggeration to say that the U.S. economy is the envy of the world right now.

And in fact, that is the title of a special report in the economists recently, titled

The Envy of the World. It was co-authored by Simon Rabinovich. So the U.S. has effectively

grown three times as fast as its kind of largest comparable economic block. That block he's

talking about is the G7 group of rich countries.

Places like the UK, Japan, and Germany.

If you take the economies of all the G7 countries and put them in a pie,

he says the U.S. used to be about 40% of that pie.

That was back in the 1990s.

Today, it's grown. It's more than 50% today.

So you look at all of these different basic top line GDP economic output metrics, and

American outperformance is really quite striking.

The big question now, though, is whether that outperformance will continue under a president who's promising some major economic changes.

And that is what we're talking about with Simon and Rabinovich today.

Now, if Simon's name rings a bell, it's because we actually had him on the show just after the election.

Today's episode is an extended cut of that chat.

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