America’s economy is once again reinventing itself

This is disappointing.<p>I enjoy some of the articles in the Economist, but this is advocacy writing at its worst. It strings together a few examples as claims, each presented uncritically, then generalizes from this bullet list to make sweeping claims with emotional characterizations.<p>It never shows you if each of these examples is actually net positive for our society and economy. It never shows you the scale or impact they're having.<p>It's like saying "Kevin Durant's shooting percentage was up this year, so the Thunder are going to win the next 10 NBA Championships!"<p>It's cheerleading.<p>No surprise there's no author's name on it.

Nothing says "buff and reinvented" like red, white and blue nipple tassels.

Thanks for reminding me why I stopped subscribing to The Economist. In addition to the usual simpleminded analysis that serves only to flatter its readers, we get an endorsement of fracking! Good lord!

How can <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_middle_class" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_middle_class</a> cope with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renminbi#Value" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renminbi#Value</a> economic/export/currency tricks, if every country follows them.

"Because the companies leading the process are so productive, they pay high wages but do not employ many people. They may thus do little to reduce unemployment, while aggravating inequality."<p>That can't really carry on long term can it? Not much chance of infrastructure improvements without a tax base?

The first paragraph shows we're not talking real world here: Obama a "left-wing president"?

Household debt 114% of income is nothing to brag about. Apalling.

I painfully disagree with this article.