The increase in American student enrollment in European universities, the massive departure of graduates and young researchers to all over the world, all indicate that the flows have reversed. The United States is no longer the great professional magnet it was in its golden age. Even long-term residents decide to leave, most often because their partner is foreign, and despite the risk of losing purchasing power. They prefer security.
Brains are fleeing, high salaries that contributed to the country’s wealth are fleeing. Violent political polarization and the loss of confidence in institutions and the law are having disastrous economic consequences. This is the beginning of the decline of university research, medicine, and finance. All sectors where the workforce was naturally volatile, attracted by high salaries and now repelled by the political and legal context.