The policies which have worked: Let people who make mistakes collapse. Let people who are competent take over assets from the incompetents.
That process in itself would put 3/4 of congress out of a job.
Zimbabwe is used as an example for what happens when a country simply prints money to fund government debt.
It could have just as easily used Argentina, or 1920s Germany.
The U.S. has let quality production go overseas -- we have become a predominantly services economy, selling insurance and investment plans to each other
The free market is gone forever. The only way we can bring it back is by ending the FED and going back to gold and silver.