It is true, and that’s why I dislike the top line metrics. The stock market is doing great! Unemployment is low! GDP is up! But the hidden assumption, that the

It is true, and that’s why I dislike the top line metrics. The stock market is doing great! Unemployment is low! GDP is up! But the hidden assumption, that these metrics would be coupled with second-order metrics like life expectancy, home ownership, health, and well-being? That no longer holds. These consequences today are all the results of political decisions made decades ago. The unfortunate reality is that turning this ship around will also take decades.