How policymakers

 can tackle power shutoffs, utility greed and the climate emergency Denialism is seeping into legislation and undermining public healthThe bank would also invest in private and public companies in the infrastructure sectors, taking warrants or options. As these companies prospered, so would the bank, paying off investors and paying down the growing debt. TARP returned billions to the treasury.  

Importantly, the bank would have an oversight and coordination role that is lacking. Can this work to reverse America’s discontent? Yes. The question is whether it will be tried.

Harlan Ullman is senior adviser at the Atlantic Council and the prime author of “shock and awe.” His latest  book is “The Fifth Horseman and the New MAD: How Massive Attacks of Disruption Became the Looming Existential Danger to a Divided Nation and the World at Large.” Follow him on Twitter