Doing business in the U.S. will never be the same after election comes close to worst-case scenario

Canadian executives last month were keen to talk ahead of small-business week, but they wanted nothing to do with me the day after the United States election, when the stakes were considerably higher. I asked about a dozen CEOs directly and indirectly for interviews and they all declined. Less shy are all the political risk analysts, who I assume were placing orders for new Teslas in between calls with clients, given all...