China in the 1980s required American companies entering the market to train Chinese workers and do joint ventures with Chinese firms, imposing requirements that seemed burdensome, but maintained an overarching mindset of 'we actually have to get the stuff done' that enabled rapid development despite the procedural obstacles.

Finland achieved rapid economic transformation and prosperity after the fall of the Berlin Wall in the late 1980s/early 1990s by adopting a mission-driven political approach without war or emergency, suggesting this model is replicable in modern peace time.

The most serious government workers (e.g., in State Department, Treasury) are deeply motivated to fix government's speed and effectiveness but are underreported because they work in the shadows of politics; they take large pay cuts to work in government despite opportunities for substantial private-sector compensation.

A modern RFC should pursue a tiered approach to missing industries: first convince existing companies to expand capacity, if they refuse fund startups to compete with them, if that fails establish state-owned enterprises, replicating what China does.

The key difference between successful international models (Germany, China) and America is not the specific institutions but the 'proactive nature of trying to find projects that are getting in the way of progress and then making sure those things get built', a mindset and orientation rather than a particular mechanism.