“Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth.”
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What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.
Culture follows power.
The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.