Platonic form of an Economist article

This may quite possibly be the Platonic form of "an Economist article". The blinkered perspective of our anonymous author is just laughable.

A curious fact about America is that, while its government has gradually slid into gridlock and ill-repute, its companies have become more globally dominant than at any point, probably, in history.

Curious indeed. Of course this couldn't possibly be a symptom of the gradual Western neoliberal transfer of power to the financial and business class over the past 30 years. No, that would be unthinkable.