Great story. I follow you and read everything you write that the feed sends me.

I know better than to be put off by your association with the "Conservative" label. I myself used to consider myself a "Fiscal Conservative" I am also still a registered Republican but I now shun the "Conservative" label. Not because I don't have "Conservative" values but because "Social Conservatives," the White Supremist, the Islamophobic, and many other undesirable elements have gathered under the "Conservative" tent.

I no longer refer to myself as a Conservative. My values have not changed but the perceptions of "Conservative" have changed and defending that label is just an unnecessary distraction.

I was always a social moderate and an environmentalist of the conservationist stripe.

I don't believe we need radical economic change we just need to put more of the proper incentives and disincentives in the economic system to keep it functioning properly. Yes, we need to use Data to design these structures not politics. Economic Policy is often an exercise in picking winners and losers and we need to stop picking as the winners those that are accumulating and destroying value and pick some that have been pushed down to be the new winners and recognize the value they create and create opportunity for then to create even greater value.

We need to grow value not value growth.

TEK