The current economic regime / paradigm / etc. is not working for the average voter who does not have a 401-K.
Trump needs to kick Wall Street in the gonads to improve Republicans' chances in the midterms.
Right motive, but by the wrong means. There's a housing squeeze because local Governments won't allow new housing to be built (constraining supply) and Wall Street is buying remaining inventory to drive up rent prices and existing home values.
An alternative approach is for the Federal government to change tax laws to disqualify single-family homes from being included in Real Estate Investment Trusts. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mae only purchase mortgages from owner-occupied (183 days/year) primary residences. Tie Federal grants to states to production of new (3) bedroom, (1.75) bath owner-occupied primary residence housing units.
1.) An outright ban on institutional buying (if those investors own more than one hundred properties) of single-family residential real estate.
Right motive, means need to be clarified. Wall Street should not be pillaging American Taxpayers to build planes that can't fly and ships that can't float. Government procurement contracts need to be vendor performance-based.
2.) Government control of executive compensation at defense and aerospace companies, along with, under loosely defined circumstances, a ban on such companies’ returning capital (whether by share buybacks or dividends) to investors.
As long as they are actuarially sound, above water, and performing loans. An innovative approach to driving down mortgage rates.
3.) The implementation of quantitative easing by ordering the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to purchase $200 billion of mortgage-backed securities
This is pandering, pure and simple, but maybe Congress could act to limit rates tied to credit cards because they are a means of conveying payments for interstate commerce.
4.) A federally imposed limit of 10 percent on the interest rates that credit cards can charge borrowers
It's come to this because over-consolidation in some American business sectors has resulted in an uncompetitive marketplace dominated by oligarchs who use their buying power to achieve pricing power through the elimination of free competition.
American crony capitalism has forgone Adam Smith's competitive, open, free market captialist principles to enrich a few at the expense of the many. Government has aided them by using over-regulation to make the cost of entry for competitors too high, or impossible.
Government, oligarchs, Wall Street Banksters, Pirate Equity, Vulture Capital, and Globalists have been gutting this country, and its workers, for 35+ years.
Government has been too permissive of allowing dominant companies to buyout emerging competition.
It Big Money wants Government to keep its hands off running their businesses, then, the Federal Government needs to do some old-fashioned trust busting and prosecution of illegal, anti-competitive business practices.
The pigs have fed so much at the trough, they have become hogs ready for slaughter.
