The devil is in the details they say the problem is which details. When looking at different statistics of American business tells me another story. When 92% of corporate profits are used to either buy back stocks, sell dividends to increase stock prices or used to reduce workers and or worker pay one realizes that this cannot be healthy for long term growth. When only eight percent is left for creating new factories or finding new technologies I highly doubt that America is creating wealth. What it is doing is funneling wealth upwards to the very top and creating slaves who live in the precariousness of part time work and low wages for those who can still find work. The rest are forgotten, those who have given up looking for work, those who are now part of your prison population, those who live on the periphery of society making money on drugs. They don't show up on your statistics. The problem with economics today is that there is no growth because there no demand because wages have stagnated with since 2008 only 2% of the wealth has gone to the bottom 98% of the population while the rest has gone to only 2% of the population. When companies like Apple sit on over 8o billion in cash of which they have paid little or no taxes one cannot look at the world or America as a healthy place.