PUBLIC POLICY
The Center for Strategy focuses on financial and economic issues affecting the way families, businesses and communities live, and strive, and find their path.
We believe left and right make little difference. Rhetoric? Humbug! Outcomes matter.
We help craft public policies to give families, businesses and communities better outcomes.
GAME CHANGERS. In our view, vexing problems point to exhilarating opportunities.
First, a story. A shoe company sends two salespeople to a faraway land to evaluate market potential. One reports back, "Forget it, no one there wears shoes." The other can barely contain herself: "Unlimited opportunity! No one is wearing shoes!"
The Center for Strategy views policy issues much the same way: flip over any problem and you discover opportunity — if you know how to flip it.
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ISSUES. We pay attention to these and other issues:
Banking and finance
Healthcare
Military
Common wealth
Student debt
More on these issues, appended below.
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MORALITY AND MATH
As with many issues, people of conscience make strong arguments based on morality, compassion, and fairness. These arguments are valid and compelling.
The Center for Strategy adds complementary perspectives: Pragmatism. Economics. Statistical validity. Evidence-based outcomes.
These views are shared by numerous thought leaders on the right, center and left. They can lead to public policy choices that are good for people, communities, business, and the environment. And good for America.
We invite you to engage with us on the issues.
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Brief takes on a few key issues.
• Municipal banking and finance. As consumers, local governments can take collective action to get better deals from Wall Street banks. A $4 trillion question.
• Public banking. Cities and counties can abandon big banks by adopting do-it-yourself banking and finance, as the State of North Dakota does with its own bank.
• Universal healthcare coverage will eliminate vast inefficiencies and wipe out a staggering "hidden tax" imposed on 100 million American families.
• Rightsizing the US military can reduce war threats and return billions annually to the productive economy — boosting net employment and revving up prosperity.
• Growing the common wealth. Research studies show that reversing privatization and expanding public assets will raise living standards, benefiting families and small businesses — America's economic backbone.
• Canceling student debt can unlock pent-up demand for everything from housing to weddings. Enact this major stimulus and watch the economy soar.
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PAIN POINTS. We see evidence that...
• Extreme concentrations of wealth and power are counterproductive.
• Extreme income and wealth inequality drag down the economy.
• Financialization disproportionately benefits the wealthy and disadvantages
almost everyone else.
• Privatizing public assets often generates negative impacts on communities.
• US healthcare provisioning is wildly inefficient and, for many people, lethal.
• Voter suppression undermines American values and hijacks democracy.
Other major pain points include big money in politics, criminalized drug use, mass incarceration, environmental degradation, and endless war. There are others.
We welcome your perspective.
The Center for Strategy focuses on financial and economic issues affecting the way families, businesses and communities live, and strive, and find their path.
We believe left and right make little difference. Rhetoric? Humbug! Outcomes matter.
We help craft public policies to give families, businesses and communities better outcomes.
GAME CHANGERS. In our view, vexing problems point to exhilarating opportunities.
First, a story. A shoe company sends two salespeople to a faraway land to evaluate market potential. One reports back, "Forget it, no one there wears shoes." The other can barely contain herself: "Unlimited opportunity! No one is wearing shoes!"
The Center for Strategy views policy issues much the same way: flip over any problem and you discover opportunity — if you know how to flip it.
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ISSUES. We pay attention to these and other issues:
Banking and finance
Healthcare
Military
Common wealth
Student debt
More on these issues, appended below.
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MORALITY AND MATH
As with many issues, people of conscience make strong arguments based on morality, compassion, and fairness. These arguments are valid and compelling.
The Center for Strategy adds complementary perspectives: Pragmatism. Economics. Statistical validity. Evidence-based outcomes.
These views are shared by numerous thought leaders on the right, center and left. They can lead to public policy choices that are good for people, communities, business, and the environment. And good for America.
We invite you to engage with us on the issues.
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MORE
Brief takes on a few key issues.
• Municipal banking and finance. As consumers, local governments can take collective action to get better deals from Wall Street banks. A $4 trillion question.
• Public banking. Cities and counties can abandon big banks by adopting do-it-yourself banking and finance, as the State of North Dakota does with its own bank.
• Universal healthcare coverage will eliminate vast inefficiencies and wipe out a staggering "hidden tax" imposed on 100 million American families.
• Rightsizing the US military can reduce war threats and return billions annually to the productive economy — boosting net employment and revving up prosperity.
• Growing the common wealth. Research studies show that reversing privatization and expanding public assets will raise living standards, benefiting families and small businesses — America's economic backbone.
• Canceling student debt can unlock pent-up demand for everything from housing to weddings. Enact this major stimulus and watch the economy soar.
_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
PAIN POINTS. We see evidence that...
• Extreme concentrations of wealth and power are counterproductive.
• Extreme income and wealth inequality drag down the economy.
• Financialization disproportionately benefits the wealthy and disadvantages
almost everyone else.
• Privatizing public assets often generates negative impacts on communities.
• US healthcare provisioning is wildly inefficient and, for many people, lethal.
• Voter suppression undermines American values and hijacks democracy.
Other major pain points include big money in politics, criminalized drug use, mass incarceration, environmental degradation, and endless war. There are others.
We welcome your perspective.
