Michael Strain

Anxiety was a natural response to a once-in-a-century global pandemic. And anxiety was a natural response to the out-of-control price increases of 2021. The message I would like to leave your listeners with is that all of that is in the past, and it's time to kind of kick the dust off our sandals and walk forward, so to speak.

We should walk forward into the future with confidence, not with anxiety, with confidence that over the past several decades, we've seen substantial improvements in economic outcomes. that things getting better is the norm, not things getting worse, that public policies have supported improvements in economic outcomes, and we don't need to throw out the playbook of the last several decades.

We should walk forward into the future with confidence, not with anxiety, with confidence that over the past several decades, we've seen substantial improvements in economic outcomes. that things getting better is the norm, not things getting worse, that public policies have supported improvements in economic outcomes, and we don't need to throw out the playbook of the last several decades.

We need to modify it and make it work better, but we don't need to start from scratch. And confidence that creative destruction creates as well as destroys and the dynamism ultimately makes us better off. And I think if we had more confidence in the future, the present would be better.

We need to modify it and make it work better, but we don't need to start from scratch. And confidence that creative destruction creates as well as destroys and the dynamism ultimately makes us better off. And I think if we had more confidence in the future, the present would be better.

The first is that the American dream is not dead. The second is that the central moral promise of capitalism holds. Hard work does pay off. People do see improvements in their economic outcomes and in their broader quality of life. America remains an upwardly mobile society. And the third is that people have agency and people can affect, for the better and for the worse, their economic outcomes.

The first is that the American dream is not dead. The second is that the central moral promise of capitalism holds. Hard work does pay off. People do see improvements in their economic outcomes and in their broader quality of life. America remains an upwardly mobile society. And the third is that people have agency and people can affect, for the better and for the worse, their economic outcomes.

Thank you so much for having me.

Thank you so much for having me.