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US is World's Most Competitive Economy for First Time in a Decade (wsj.com)
schwit1 shares a report: The U.S. is back on top as the most competitive country in the world, regaining the No. 1 spot for the first time since 2008 in an index produced by the World Economic Forum [Editor's note: the link may be paywalled; alternative source], which said the country could still do better on social issues. America climbed one place in the rankings of 140 countries, with the top five rounded out by Singapore, Germany, Switzerland and Japan. All five countries' scores rose from 2017, with the U.S. notching the second-biggest gain after Japan's. [...] The Global Competitiveness Report this year assessed 140 countries on 98 indicators that measure business investment and productivity. The indicators are organized into 12 main drivers of productivity including the nations' institutions, tech savvy, infrastructure, education systems, market size and innovation.
Obama was the problem. We could have elected a scarecrow as POTUS and the economy would have done better!
Reuniting Koreas
Record unemployment
Record growth
Will likely eliminate the federal restriction on marijuana and leave it to states
Tossing around the idea of getting rid of income tax, replacing with tarriffs on chinese garbage
and on the other side?
Autistic screeching and promoting mental illness as normal
Thanks Trump.
This is what happens when you put a true entrapeneur, and verified job creator with business savvy and acumen, into office
That's one of the funniest things I have seen since George W Bush, of revered memory, told the world that "the trouble with the French is that they don't have a word for 'entrepreneur'".
I am sure that there are many other solipsists out there.
Because their views of Obama = good, Trump = bad, are being challenged with indisputable facts that they can no longer deny. The man they were told is as dumb as a rock turns out to be at least an order of magnitude smarter than their great Obama. All their cries of the economy being destroyed not only didn't happen, but Trump grew it bigger than even he was claiming. Meanwhile Obama said it wasn't possible, "whats he going to do waive a magic wand at it?" and now all the people who said it wasn't even possible are attempting to say it was Obama that did it. But they know absolutely no one believes them, not even those saying it.
This is a textbook case of showing the complete failure that liberalism is. No spin can change opinion on this, all it does is ruin credibility of those spinning.
We traded short term growth for long term instability MAGA woooooo! The deficit is where it was in 2012. So much for fiscal conservatism. RIP
I've read reports from ex-patriots of Sweden, Finland, Denmark and they call it "hell" because these countries cannot tolerate individualism. For example you buy yourself a BMW or Mercedes, your car will be keyed by your neighbors, to remind you "You are no better than we." If you try to express a contrary opinion, you get ostracized and home vandalized. Possibly arrested.
They are very oppressive societies.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall