Today, Barack Obama was inaugurated as President of the United States. Congratulations, USA… you’ve made history.

A couple of noteworthy quotes from Barack’s address (can I call him Barack?):

“..we have chosen hope over fear…”
“.. the time has come to set aside childish things…”
“We will restore science to its rightful place…”
“…nor can we consume the world’s resources without regard to effect. For the world has changed, and we must change with it.”
“What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility — a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly…”

“What we all need to do is to sit down and calm down and go back to basics.
And most important of all, shed our sense of pessimism.

It is only with a sense of optimism, preferably accompanied by a sense of energy and laughter, that we will be able to pick ourselves up from a broken Humpty Dumpty.

In particular, governments must immediately instigate infrastructure projects to increase employment, and they must force banks, particularly those that they have rescued, to lend to small businesses.

Without a general sense of gainful employment, from which the ordinary people at large can grow optimistic, we run a huge danger of increasing unemployment.”

Viewpoint by Sir David Tang, Entrepreneur

Read the entire article on the BBC News / UK/ Business section