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I'm saying given the choices of "US economy doubled! Eurozone completely stagnant" (nominal) and "both grew, US somewhat more" (PPP), PPP is by far a more accurate model of what has actually transpired.

That is all.

What it may or may not say about Greece is utterly irrelevant because that's not what I was talking about.

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If you're only saying it's better for this single ratio then that doesn't make it a more accurate model. Statistics can be closer on a single number by pure happenstance.

If you want to say it's a more accurate model then you need to defend it more broadly.

But the problem that it is not, you are using PPP for things that explicitly it shouldn’t be used for.

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