(04/08/2012 12:45 AM)ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:  

(03/08/2012 10:58 PM)Assassinator Wrote:  North Korea's GDP chart totally defies logic.  I mean like wtf, how can your GDP rise very sharply, then suddenly become a perfectly fucking straight line for like 20 years, then start going backwards at the same speed as it went up, then become a straight line again...

North Koreans just do what the fudge they want. (after their fearless leader of course)

(this includes fixing exchange rates)

Fixing exchange rates doesn't fix GDP.

If I were to take a guess, the straight line is probably because the government's control is absolute that nothing changed in 20 years, everyone's fixed to doing what they're assigned to do and the prices were all fixed too. (Note: this is per capita GDP).

And then shit totally fucked up in the early 90s.


Here's the original image for context.