] The United States of America is on the verge of losing ] its competitive advantage, economist Richard ] Florida wrote last fall in a Harvard Business Review ] article based on his new book, The Flight of the ] Creative Class: The New Global Competition for ] Talent. It is facing perhaps its greatest ] economic challenge since the dawn of the industrial ] revolution. Even more provocatively, he later ] declared that Terrorism is less a threat to the ] U.S. than the possibility that creative and talented ] people will stop wanting to live within its ] borders. This is an interesting take on recent red-blue strife. Salon.com Books | The gay/hipster index |