While the devaluation of the dollar may be the most dramatic measure of the U.S.'s reduced clout in world commerce, another event may ultimately have a greater impact on the nation's economic health. It is the shocking decline of good old Yankee ingenuity, otherwise known as research and development.
The U.S. has always prided itself on being the world's undisputed leader in technological innovation. Since World War II foreign demand for aircraft, computers, automated tools and other products of American labs and workshops could be...
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