And for the foreseeable future , provided that the cyclical situation is as dire as the pessimists say , and the incoming administration is smart enough to spend it on positive NPV stuff like infrastructure education . If they start spending taxpayer money on frivolous things like his foundation is accused of doing however . But actually , I made this comment because I ' m straightup shocked that the Fed chair apparently feels that this guys just does understand fiscal policy in the first place . Not a sign of confidence , TBH . <| sep |> Olympus Black Friday deals have just started . The prices for their lenses were marked down around midnight . I think the 1240 mm sale price is $ 699 <| sep |> it effectively defunds public school and redirects that money to private sector . It makes public schools less desirable and attractive to middle income parents who would have put their kids thereWhich isn ' t necessarily a bad thing on its own . The real problem as I see it stems from the difficulty in objectively assessing the quality of an educational institution . The typical metric is student success rate , but unlike other business models , that depends greatly on the students consumers themselves , thereby incentivizing the schools to admit only those most likely to succeed while rejecting others . That ' s an issue in and of itself , but obviously public schools don ' t have the luxury to game their reputation like this , so you ' re left with this quasi free market Frankenstein . Competition is great , but clearly fails when success is measured by the quality of the consumer , and I think it ' s only until we can figure out some way around that , that it can be effectively applied in this context .