The Word From Outside Our Backyard

Sometimes you have to venture outside of your own backyard to get a sense of how things are going in your backyard.

The Daily Telegraph, with a piece published online Sunday evening, did that very thing.  It had shale gas, energy independence, demographics, manufacturing, and reshoring all wrapped up to go in 29 short paragraphs.

To think.  A must-read summation of the future of the U.S. economy requires us turning to a Europoean source.

Still debating on clicking through?  Here's a good summary of the summary:  "The American phoenix is slowly rising again. Within five years or so, the U.S. will be well on its way to self-sufficiency in fuel and energy. Manufacturing will have closed the labour gap with China in a clutch of key industries."