But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The fact is that the economy is really posed for the kind of recovery that people can see and understand.
We should see better and more direct measurements of economic well being.
An actual understanding of our economy is that our economy most depends on our rate of innovation... It's not actually understood by most of the people running for office, but it's not in fact disputed.
The economy is not an abstraction. The economy consists of people, and it will only grow if people feel secure and are reasonably free.
Ultimately, your economy has to be measured in the real eyes of real people, not simply in statistics that appear in newspapers about the unemployment rate and so forth.
It is clear that the economy has not gotten better for everyone.
Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's also profoundly ugly.
I think in part the reason is that seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps crystallize issues: in one's own environment, one takes too much for granted, without asking why things are the way they are.
My claim is that we do not have a market economy, but a capitalist economy.
Naturally we are aware of the strength of our economy and naturally we don't want to downplay it.
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