Ships like this aren’t limited to one-way traffic
American exceptionalism is a piece of ideology rooted in frontier culture – in turn a simple fact derived from this continent’s late arrival on the economic scene.
Americans are just about catching up to the old saw about learning from history before you repeat it. Trouble is there’s a qualitative addition to that dicho which suggests you learn from history – and do something different by examining current qualitative differences.
Twice as many business executives around the world say the global economy will prosper better if incumbent President Barack Obama wins the next election than if his Republican challenger Mitt Romney does…
Democrat Obama was chosen by 42.7 percent in the 1,700 respondent poll, compared with 20.5 percent for Romney. The rest said “neither”.
The result was different among respondents in the United States, where a slim majority thought Romney would be better for their businesses than Obama.
One of the so-called delights of our dedication to entrepreneurship is that lot of people who don’t know crap about macro-economics can be successful. For a while, anyway.
Obama maintains a seven-point lead over Romney among registered voters in the race for the November 6 presidential election, despite the fact Americans are increasingly pessimistic about the future, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted last week.
