In the past the whole world needed the Yank economy to do well so that fat americans would buy the stuff we made. sO IF the Yank economy went down, fat amerkicans had less cash to waste, so they wouldn't buy our stuff.
But now all these old fail places like china, india russia etc... hav a huge new middle class who are loaded, so even if the americans dont buy the stuff that the rest of the world makes, there's so many new middle class cunts with money to burn that somebody wiil buy this shit.