Preface

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Something is broken. You can feel it. You work harder and fall further behind. You’re told it’s the market, it’s global forces, it’s just how things are now. It’s not.

Fifty years of decisions turned a production economy into an extraction economy. Not by accident. By choices made by people with names, in rooms with addresses, on dates that can be looked up.

This book names the decisions and the people who made them. From the Powell Memo in 1971 to the bank bailouts in 2008. How housing, healthcare, education, and retirement became extraction machines. How America surrendered strategic capacity while calling it free trade.

The tone is precise. The documentation is rigorous. This is testimony for the record, not a rant for the moment.

If you’ve been told to blame yourself, or immigrants, or the other party, this book shows you who actually made the decisions. If you’ve wondered whether anything can be done, it ends with a specification, not a wish.