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1The Three Foundations of the Restoration Economy

To restore is to make something well again. It is mending the world. People have to believe there will be a future in order to look forward. To live in that future, we need a design. To pay the bills from the past, we need a means.… For those who say that times are tough, that we can ill afford sweeping changes because the existing system is already broke or hobbled, consider that the U.S. and the former U.S.S.R. spent over $10 trillion on the Cold War, enough money to replace the entire infrastructure of the world, every school, every hospital, every roadway, building and farm. In other words, we bought and sold the world in order to defeat a political movement. To now assert that we don’t ...

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