What I'm after is challenging your presuppositions that wealth comes from exploitation and radically changing them to the view that wealth comes from freedom of individual pursuit and that as freedom in the US increased as we threw out immoral outdated European/African/Asian concepts like slavery - so did it's wealth.

Blame Bush.As to the thousands of innocent Jews slaughtered...I mean the thousands of innocent Europeans slaugheter...I mean the thousands of southern Vietnamese slaughtered....I mean the thousands of Phillipinos slaughtered...I mean the thousands of innocent Kurds slaughtered.....I mean the thousands of innocent Kuwaitee's slaughtered...you raise an interesting point of what US military action overseas has done for anyone.

Krugman also never mentioned that this “excess spending†help contribute to the collapse of the Cold War and at that time, the debt ratio as a percentage of GDP was still below most western European countries.

And it was from the Nigerians, Ghanaians and the Benins that Europeans were able to buy the African slaves from African slave traders for transport throughout the world.

And you don't have to have a strong ownership economy to have a strong economy; some European countries don't even hit 50% home ownership.

I actually traced it back to see how far back I could find the concept of "renting" in European civilization.

I have seen his toys , very nice old european sports cars .

In many instances, you will not be able to run a credit history (although we can do this for U.S.A. and some European candidates) or criminal background check (it will either be impossible due to privacy laws or politics or impractical due to cost).   

I think you have to understand the Western European perspective of things in order to understand the Nobel award to Obama.

If you style the kitchen well, you can get a nice European contemporary look for short cash.