Channeling Willie Sutton

Willie Sutton's attachment to money gained via nefarious ways is the stuff of legend while HowMuch's 3D map depicting where the money is the stuff of fact, something most intriguing to techs like your truly.

As shown by the map, the New York metropolitan area, which includes Newark and Jersey City, lead the country with $1.5 trillion in GDP. The area had GDP growth of 2.4% in 2014. The New York metropolitan area provided almost 10% of the total GDP for the entire country.

The Greater Los Angeles area was second with $866 billion in GDP, with an increase of 2.3% over 2013. This was followed by the Chicago metropolitan area with $610 billion and growth of 1.8%. In fourth was the Houston metro area with $525 billion. Dallas, another Texas metro area, had $504 billion in GDP.

"Go where the money is... and go there often." - Willie Sutton

The esteemed Willie Sutton :)