For example, he gives short shrift to the idea that loose monetary policy prolongs the lives of " zombie companies" whose capital would otherwise be reallocated to more productive endeavours.
I'm not a mathematician, I haven't done the numbers, but that is money and resources that could be reallocated to mental health services, to drug treatment programs, to education.
Sources say there's roughly $800 million left, and the Trump administration is considering reallocating it towards helping with mass deportations, but said no final decision has been made.
If governments reallocated the money spent on space travel and research, many thousands of people could be lifted out of poverty or given a better quality of life.
I mean, are there any pinch points in your budgets that you're looking at in the year ahead and thinking, like, to be said about how you reallocate the priorities?