Economic recoveries are like Indiana Jones movies. The best ones have a Nazi to fight. It’s widely accepted that World War II brought us recovery from the Great Depression by putting the New Deal spending on steroids. That spending happened because we had a vision of victory. We knew we must win, and the Nazis must lose.
As it stands today, we have no metaphoric Nazi, and we need one. Such a touchstone embodying victory will unify us. We’ll know what we’re working to achieve. It will motivate us to revive the economy with our own version of the Manhattan project.
So what will it be? What’s our Nazi, and how will the battle against it save, yes save our economy? Take the jump with me...
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