Damaged goods
Economist | And one of the better covers in a while, too (I love work-after-giving-my-notice)
Its [America's] brand of capitalism appears to have something going for it—so it may seem churlish, even perverse, to wonder how much better a country as successful as this might do if it really tried.
...The rest of a suitably ambitious agenda for improving the performance of American capitalism might run as follows: genuine, as opposed to phoney, corporate-governance reform; tort reform; tax reform; and corporate-welfare reform. The Bush administration seems to be keen on some parts of this package, but is decidedly opposed to others...