Debt is a drag, a reality you may experience with every credit-card bill you open. But for a corporation or a government, it can be even more of a drag - on economic growth and job creation.

Increased spending, growing government debt and overreaching regulations are stifling job creation and economic growth.

office buildings are our factories. They are at the center of economic growth and job creation.

The main target for the next years should be growth and job creation.

Our job as a government is to start with the great underpinnings of our current economic growth - particularly defence and mining - and build on these.

As America's head coach, President Obama needs to make some big and smart adjustments to jump-start economic growth and business investment, stimulate job creation, and get wages up for ordinary Americans.