Jan Rivkin, leader of Harvard University’s U.S. Competitiveness Project: “Businesses should be taking the stagnation of living standards of the average Americans as a canary in their coal mine. Companies will not survive for the long run if their communities are stagnant.” Ed Gillespie, the Republican who surprisingly barely lost the Virginia Senate race: “We can see an influence economy starting to take shape. CEOs are becoming less concerned about inventing the right products, targeting the right markets and hiring the right people in hopes of making a respectable profit for investors — and more concerned about getting the right lobbyists, retaining the right lawyers and attending the right fundraisers in hopes of getting a hefty subsidy from taxpayers.”

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