I agree with JK above, but for the sake of "full disclosure", I think it should be noted that Scandinavian countries have consistently ranked higher than the US in Forbes' annual list of "Best Countries in the world for Business" rankings over the past decade.  

The irony, IMO, is the fact that Scandinavia has generally become more "business friendly"--according to Forbes' criteria--relative to the US, but without direct reference to the fact that the past decade was historically exceptional due to the Great Recession, which started in 2007-08, and which almost crashed the entire US (and possibly global) economy because, IMO, the US was far TOO FRIENDLY to business during the presidency of Bush 43.  

In addition to too much DEregulation, particularly of the Wall Street casino (aka the so-called "financial industry") plus not one, but two, counter-productive wars--"paid for" by not one, but two, tax cuts for the wealthy--who Obama (aka US taxpayers/consumers) had to bail out--AGAIN!