"Risk aversion and short-term thinking are the main drivers of this problem. Why would a CEO want to invest in a new venture which would only result in payoffs 12 years down the line? Netflix launched in 1997 and only turned a profit in 2003. Blockbuster had record revenues in 2006 but went bust a few years later - you can see why a CEO wants to focus on the core business."
By @KP on The path to enlightenment and profit starts inside the office

"There is another possibility. A Europe without the EU might be a Europe in which individual nation states actually respected each other more than they do now. I am sure the UK and France would still cooperate in areas of mutual interest, without having to squabble because we have a different view on the direction of the EU."
By Bosworth on Brexit is no way out of a Europe in crisis