The Magic Growth Bullet: Infrastructure Investment

Epoch Times spoke to Woody Brock about why public infrastructure investment is the best way to boost growth without taking from future generations.
The Magic Growth Bullet: Infrastructure Investment
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In economics, nobody likes it but everybody has to live with it: uncertainty. It makes business decisions difficult and wreaks havoc in economic models. This is why mainstream economics oftentimes ignores it and assumes we have complete certainty in economic planning.

In real life, this assumption never pans out, which is part of the reason mainstream economics is notoriously bad at predicting financial crises.

Not so Horace “Woody” Brock. A mathematical economist by training, he embraced Economics of Uncertainty and founded his consulting firm Strategic Economic Decisions after doing extensive research at Stanford University.

His most recent book is called “American Gridlock,” where he proposes common sense solutions to economic crises.

When you borrow my $10 trillion proposal over 20 years, redo our infrastructure. That's not borrowing, that's investing.
Valentin Schmid
Valentin Schmid
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Valentin Schmid is a former business editor for the Epoch Times. His areas of expertise include global macroeconomic trends and financial markets, China, and Bitcoin. Before joining the paper in 2012, he worked as a portfolio manager for BNP Paribas in Amsterdam, London, Paris, and Hong Kong.
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