When the government applies its money toward ensuring that people are healthier, better educated, and able to move about and communicate with one another, the entrepreneurial world can then deliver the vibrancy that Davos Man loves to celebrate. The result is innovation and new businesses that hire people, purchasing goods and services from one another, as the economy expands. But public education, health care, and infrastructure require money. Davos Man has looted national treasuries, leaving governments in most major economies chronically underfunded. That has left them short of the
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