Education programs. Student debt forgiveness. Rebuilding the military. No boondoggle left behind!
When an empire reaches the edge of a cliff, it will always find leaders to give it a push.
Financialization... What is it? How does it happen? Does it matter? Who cares?
We were recounting a heroic tale, with your editor as its leading man.
It distorts an economy from using real resources...to using fake money to make more fake money.