McKinsey: The United States has led the invention of new products, systems, and technologies over the past 250 years.

America’s ‘can-do’ spirit

From its inception to this day, the United States has had an entrepreneurial culture that has served as an ongoing foundation for competitiveness. By some accounts, entrepreneurs and inventors have been “cultural heroes” throughout US history. Entrepreneurship in…

Top 10 largest publicly traded firms in the world by market capitalization - US firms have led global rankings for more than a century. #McKinsey #Report

Top 100 public companies in the world by market capitalization, Dec 31, 2025 - US ‚rms make up the majority of the world’s largest companies. #McKinsey #Report

Competitiveness indicators for G7 economies and Mainland China. #McKinsey #Report

McKinsey: " The US is the most economically competitive country in the world today, but it has work to do. Despite accounting for just 4% of the world's population, the US produces 26% of GDP, 27% of research & development, and has 59 of the world's 100 most valuable firms. But the world is changing rapidly, and the next chapter holds immense challenges. How can the US best position itself to…

When they allude to Mark Twain's prescient but overused quote :- "History Doesn't Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes” , this is what they mean:- The following article appears in The New York Times' print on Oct. 12, 1986. Yes, 1986 - not the 2020s. Such uncanny resemblance today:-

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*THIS is another story of the loss of a manufacturing industry to Japan, of protectionism that backfired, and…

Stimulus measures should boost consumption

" Numerous government stimulus measures are already in place — from tax cuts included in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, to retroactive tax refunds, to massive tax breaks and subsidies for companies that agree to move their manufacturing operations to the United States. More recently, the president has championed the idea of “tariff dividends” for US citizens under…

Reuters: "The combined group's $2.5 trillion in assets under management puts below Europe’s biggest (Amundi), but way below U.S. behemoths BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street."

Views? #Forbes #USA #Innovators

Lol...The core driver of this deficiency in the US is the immense cost of building anything relative to comparable projects in other countries or eras.

China has built over 61x more high-speed rail lines than the US. #ContraryResearch

'While the vast majority of international overseas freight is via ocean freight, domestic freight, in particular, relies heavily on trucking.'

Read somewhere - “Show me the heroes websites that the youth of your country look up to, and I will tell you the future of your country.”

Co-incidence?

Decadal highs