[shagmin]

I imagine that's more of an issue now than during the Great Depression. Back then you could easily put that money into large pools of labor, whether assembly lines at factories or agriculture or infrastructure projects and gave a pretty good return on investment. Now a large pool of labor at a company is treated more like a liability, and yeah just putting money into real properties may get you a better return than anything that directly benefits any meaningful number of people. Even if the money goes towards something like infrastructure - the cost of equipment is one thing, but I imagine there are plenty of instances where a handful of lawyers and beaurocrats involved in a project get paid more than some massive crews that do the actual labor combined.