America's most flamboyant property tycoon, Donald Trump, is no lover of government. Burons, which he defined as a cross between a bureaucrat and a moron, are destroyers of opportunity, he wrote in 2000. This week he had to give thanks to Scottish burons for hauling his plan to spend ￡1 billion ($1.6 billion) on a lavish golf resort near Aberdeen out of the bunker into which local councillors had pitched it. He may have landed in the thick rough of recession instead.
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