U.S. companies rely on the European market for more than half of their global foreign profits.

U.S. companies earn more from their investments in the EU than in the rest of the world combined.

David Cameron says he wants to keep Britain in the EU, but his tactics are so divisive that, if he gets what he wants it will be at the price of huge ill-will in Europe; or if he doesn't, it will be at the price of increased anti-EU sentiment in his own party and in British society.

A terrorist nuclear detonation in a western city would destroy all economic confidence.

Proliferation of nuclear weapons to terrorist organisations is far more dangerous than proliferation of nuclear weapons to states, even states like North Korea.

If the EU and the US can cooperate successfully on regulating financial markets, everyone else will follow.

When the E.U. and the U.S. agree, other countries follow.