What if we imagined a world where president-elect Donald Trump's plan to "make America great" really worked? The United States is still running itself under the illusion that its economy is the entire world. "Capital investment has been weak and that's one reason productivity growth has been as depressed as it is," Yellen said. Trump's plan to convince U.S. companies to bring their capital home and invest it could help change that. In a fascinating interview on CBC's The Current, philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah said that what now shows itself as racism in the United States is really a cry of economic pain.

Source: CBC News November 21, 2016 09:56 UTC