Remaking Our Economy

Across the political spectrum, there is an absence of serious and persuasive ideas for reviving and rebuilding the U.S. economy. Bill Clinton’s advocacy of extensive federal investment in infrastructure, training, and education is a vast improvement over anything else on the horizon, but it represents only a first step. The economy needs reforms on the scale of the New Deal, but Roosevelt and his Brain Trust were able to draw on a rich vein of bold reform ideas that had previously been ...