Newsweek americano racconta che l’America is back, come sempre, e che le voci sulla fine del suo primato di superpotenza economica erano esagerate. Speriamo che Obama se ne renda conto.
"The current pessimism is part of a historical economic inferiority complex. To hear some critics tell it, things have been going south in this country since the cruel winter in Jamestown, Va., in 1609, when most of the settlers died. And for most of the 19th century, America was the immature, uncouth cousin that required huge infusions of European capital to build its railroads. The U.S. emerged from World War II as the globe’s industrial, financial, and technological leader by default—the rest of the developed world had destroyed much of its industrial capacity. Yet Americans were insecure about their rising status. In the 1920s, many Progressives returned from Mussolini’s Italy convinced that Il Duce had a superior economic model. During the New Deal, bankers and industrialists earnestly fretted that Franklin Roosevelt would ruin the nation’s prospects for growth by establishing a new safety net. The U.S.S.R.’s launch of the sputnik satellite in 1957 inspired fears that the Soviet Union’s presumed technological lead would allow it to triumph in the Cold War. And in the 1980s, Japan threatened the U.S. with exports of electronics and cars and by buying trophy properties like Rockefeller Center and the Pebble Beach golf resort. "The Cold War is over, and Japan won," as Sen. Paul Tsongas put it in 1992".