Justin Fox, Columnist

America Is Getting Richer and Sicker

The American economy is expanding faster than in other developed countries. Maybe American well-being isn't.

March 27, 2017 at 4:47 PM UTC

Justin Fox is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering business, economics and other topics involving charts. A former editorial director of the Harvard Business Review, he is author of “The Myth of the Rational Market.”

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Per capita gross domestic product is much higher in the U.S. than in the other major developed economies, and no one really seems to be catching up:1490625715672

Life expectancy, on the other hand, is lower in the U.S. than in those same peer countries -- and the gap has been growing.