The President spoke a lot about competitiveness in his State of the Union last night so we thought we’d do a little comparative analysis.  Sorry to throw so many charts at you but we think they’re a little more sexy than just looking at the data in the raw.

The comparison of the most problematic factors of doing business in the these countries is very interesting and, in some cases, a bit surprising.  The data and charts are from a World Economic Forum survey of real business executives doing real business in these countries.   (Click here if charts are not observable)