America will remain the best place on earth to do business, so long as Barack Obama and the Democrats in Congress resist the temptation to interfere too much, and so long as organised labour does not overplay its hand.

Democrats and Republicans can and will take sides on a number of issues, but a more crucial concern is that both are basing major policy decisions on guesstimates rather than looking at the vast wealth of raw data with a critical eye and an open mind.

Democrats and Republicans cooperate on crucial issues At some point in 2008, someone, probably in either Asia or Africa, made the decision to move from the countryside to the city

The incompetence of the Democrats.