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Political gridlock in Washington...the lingering ramifications of the financial meltdown...structural problems such as unemployment and the skills gap in our work force...the mediocre K-12 educational system. Are our best days behind us? Joel Kurtzman persuasively shows why all the speak about America's decline isn't only baseless but deceased incorrect. Our best days, are, in simple fact, ahead of us. Four transformational makes - unrivaled manufacturing depth, soaring degrees of creativity, large new energy options, and gigantic levels of capital hanging around to be invested - have been gathering steam. When combined they will provide the foundation for a much stronger economy, robust development, and broad-based prosperity that will propel the United States to new heights. One endlessly repeated stress is the fact that "we don't make anything here, nowadays." The reality, though, is the fact that the united states is the world's dominant manufacturing electricity - and growing. American companies produce 20 percent of the world's goods in america and perhaps another 15 to 20 percent outside our country. And much of what we should make is recession-proof - such as software, jetliners, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and food. Kurtzman reveals the tales of the unsung heroes who will be the creative push leading the next American century, talking about the payoff of the investment inside our best brains. American companies have stunning degrees of talent and creativity at the job in the world's fastest growing economic industries - biotech, pharmaceuticals, computer hardware and software, telecommunications, advanced manufacturing, materials knowledge, and aeronautical and space executive. In these areas, Americans are without peer and consistently break new floor. We are arriving to the realization that America is no more beholden to the despots of overseas energy. Because of advancements in technology developed in america, we now have among the world's greatest energy reserves, and are richer in energy resources than Saudi Arabia and second only to Russia. These three advantages - manufacturing, soaring degrees of creativeness, and energy freedom - will be magnified and synergistically combined with unprecedented amount of capital that now lies idle. US companies of most types are hoarding cash and securities well worth more than $4 trillion - an amount bigger than the world's fourth greatest overall economy, Germany. When the money starts flowing and is invested, it will rapidly propel every section of the economy forward.
