I would agree about the market being freer in the US than Europe, but the UK's market is almost as free as the US' http://www.heritage.org/research/features/ind

I would agree about the market being freer in the US than Europe, but the UK's market is almost as free as the US' http://www.heritage.org/research/features/index/countries.cfm http://www.heritage.org/research/features/index/countries.cf... ... there has to be something else that the US has got too. A population of 300 million (vs. the UK's ~60 million) springs to mind.