How long do you think the U.S.A economy has been declining?

Relative the rest of the world since WWII a href="http://visualizingeconomics.com/2008/01/20/share-of-world-gdp/" rel="nofollow"http://visualizingeconomics.com/2008/01/…/a The slow down in the GDP per capita growth rate started in 1974. but we are not declining, just growing slower, We are just having a very bad recession, but it bottomed out more than a year ago and the economy is gaining jobs.