Good to see that in one ultra-high technological niche, Europe is the leader. Credit where it's due to our cultural cousins across the pond, they have had the

Good to see that in one ultra-high technological niche, Europe is the leader. Credit where it's due to our cultural cousins across the pond, they have had the lead in advanced technology and microelectronics for decades even though we're on the same page culturally and economically. The sad reality is that human ingenuity and entrepreneurship can get sabotaged pretty easily when incompetent and short-sighted bureaucrats are running the show. For example, and tangentially related, I was surprised to learn this morning that Airbus has one (and soon two) assembly sites in Mobile, AL — for a European it is surprising to know we have a high-tech company so successful it can afford a foothold or two in the US, when the opposite is incredibly commonplace.