The issue is economic systems offered by far right and left and even the centre are not working to today's reality.
The reality today is of low growth and high debt. The factors do not support an economy to boom and there are no sensible steps that government can take to boost the economy apart from heading to a financial cliff.
Trump offers protectionism and lower tax rates and expects supply side economics to grow the economy. Ronald Reagan was a good president but that aspect of his presidency was a huge failure and we saw it under Bush II as well.
Bernie offers protectionism and massive increasing spending expecting massive growth of the economy to pay for or offset any rise of the Debt to GDP ratio (or in others ways they do not care about the debt).
However we saw under the Obama Stimulus plan that spending a lot of money is more about ensuring your house does not burn down then anything about repairing it. The US economy was only creating net new job well over a year after the stimulus plan in late 2010 and early 2011.
Now I hear of a wacky idea in the UK that the government be lent money interest free to build infrastructure? Using that logic why not just print money and make it out of thin air ?
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