<story><title>Steve Jobs and America&apos;s decline</title><url>http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2011/10/death-steve-jobs</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stephen_g</author><text>&quot;As bad as their politics has got, Americans could always comfort themselves with the knowledge that their business leaders, entrepreneurs and workers were the most dynamic and innovative in the world.&quot;&lt;p&gt;Do any people from the USA find these sentiments nauseating or is it just the rest of the world? I don&apos;t know exactly what they mean by &apos;dynamic&apos;, but the idea that all the most innovative people only exist in the United States (or even that people in the US are on average more innovative than others) is ridiculous, and stating it is just blind nationalism...</text></comment>
<story><title>Steve Jobs and America&apos;s decline</title><url>http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2011/10/death-steve-jobs</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Newgy</author><text>America&apos;s &quot;decline&quot; is mostly a function of bad government policy the past 15 years or so that lead to massively wasteful over-investment of people and capital into finance and real estate.&lt;p&gt;Break up the banks, let the market (not the Fed) set interest rates, deregulate health care markets, and balance the budget.</text></comment>