I’ve been a proponent of a developmental macroeconomic model for sustainable productive capacity for decades. There are many in situ resources available domestically if we re-design our systems accordingly. However, I’m currently having difficulty understanding how this can done when currency differences have forced an arbitrage crippling Western economies. I’ve always been sceptical of how free market treaties have been functionally implemented. Economics will not be meaningful or useful until it diagnoses its two glaring dysfunctions: dispossessing inequality and climate change.