The World ex-U.S. peaked in July 2014. The U.S. peaked a year later. For an entire year, the denialists were right - the U.S. HAD decoupled from reality...
"All one market"
The Global Dow (incl. U.S.):
The globalized economy is a colossal Ponzi Scheme in which the vast majority survive on the bread crumbs falling off the table. The possibility of 7 billion people achieving a consumption-oriented lifestyle is zero, so the World Bank conveniently set the poverty line at $1.25/day to legalize global slavery. As long as someone else's children are doing the suffering, it's "all good". Post-2008, this illusion was extended merely by plundering all future generations.