Exports of resources have been an important part of the story, but it is broader than that, with strong growth in exports of services too. Person to person links also continue to deepen, with half of all international visitors to Australia last year coming from Asia. On infrastructure, the story is also a positive one.
For the United States, information about the profitability and the balance sheets of commercial banks has been available for many years in the “Call Reports” that are published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. These data have been used for many important studies on the US banking industry. It would not be possible to publish such data in many other jurisdictions.