Where are the bond issues to construct new factories/refurbish existing factories so that we put people back to work making things we can sell to the world, and EVEN ... get this ... the workers have a chance to OWN those factories.
Step right up and tell me I'm full of it. In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.
There are lots of ways of doing that.
however, hoping that American casino capitalism can somehow be controlled to protect jobs in the long term is to completely misunderstand that the system exists to subtract wealth, to create it. keep to the Fen Causeway
Now if they floated bonds for, say, wind turbines, they might be able to service the debt and have something left over for boring stuff like essential services. The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman