This is the only way to go and people who believe health care reforms, Socialism or tax cuts alone could do the trick are severely mistaken.
No one ought to be surprised that Sweden of today is a considerably more healthy economy that it was in the dark, Socialist past.
According to FDI Magazine/Financial Times, Stockholm is the 4th best European city for foreign direct investments after London, Paris and Moscow. Furthermore, it is estimated that Greater Stockholm will grow from today's 2 million inhabitants to nearly 4 million in the coming twenty years - and this is hardly because of the breeding accomplished by Muslim immigrants (see link to a former post of mine on this subject below). In other words, even if Stockholm will continue to be a small city compared to LA, Tokyo and London, Stockholm might soon surpass Berlin and Rome in population size (as these cities aren't growing much or are even shrinking in terms of population size).
Which company will exercise the most of influence over our common digital future, Microsoft, Intel, IBM or Ericsson?
That I do not know, but I do know this technology presently is being developed here in Sweden rather than in Silicon Valley, even if Silicon Valley still is of great importance in the domain of IT.
The main reason is that probably no other company on Earth can compete with Ericsson when it comes to making IT-/ICT more minute as well as more mobile. I'm not an expert of these things, but I know a little about economic history and the history of technology and it's apparent to me that IT has developed in this direction ever since its childhood. Since the 1980s, Ericsson has been central to this process.
Today, computers are not stationary to the degree they were twenty years ago. In the future, computers will probably be even more mobile.
I'm not claiming Stockholm houses more HQs of IT multinationals than Silicon Valley does, but I wish to draw attention among Americans interested in economy and technology to the fact that American and Northern European companies presently are up to immensely interesting activities here in Scandinavian. Heard of 4G?
Google might be an even bigger corporation than Swedish Ericsson, but few companies can compete with Ericsson in bringing about ICT revolutions. The fact that I have access to Google through my cellphone has more to do with Ericsson's technological solutions than those of Google.
Contrary to Norway and Quatar, Sweden has no oil but still is one of the ten wealthiest nations on Earth measured by nominal GDP per capita. During 1994-2007, in other words after the global economic crises of the early 1990’s but before the recent, global financial crises, Swedish GDP growth was almost twice as high as that of Germany.
Apart from issues concerning IT and resistance to Muslim ideas on freedom of speech, Scandinavia and especially Sweden deserves recognition for its ability to produce successful internationals.
Two of the richest men on Earth are Swedes and there's a reason why.
Sweden is one of the most PC countries on Earth and the climate is nothing to write home about (if you're foreign..), but the economy is among the healthiest on this planet. Even though Sweden pays for its own defense.
Apart from this, Sweden has in fact beaten Canada in the game of ice hockey as well as that of curling.
Some links;
Ericsson and different aspects of IT-technology:
http://www.ericsson.com/article/whitepapers_20100208152557
The Global Information Technology Report:
http://www.weforum.org/en/initiatives/gcp/Global%20Information%20Technology%20Report/index.htm
Where to invest in Europe (according to FDI Magazine/Financial Times):
http://www.fdimagazine.com/cp/26/European-Cities-and-Regions-of-the-Future-2010-11.pdf
Stockholm is very remote to Malmö:
I hear that muslims are really on the rampage there.
Oh,please! This kind of comparison is so stupid as to beggar the imagination. It is really easy to wire up a country the size of a postage stamp. It is just a bit different to do so in a land area the size of the United States.
obamunism.
LLS