Austin streamlined its permitting process and saw construction increase and rents decrease, but this was not a 'silver bullet' because 50% of Austin's population is still cost-burdened by rent, and construction has since slowed due to net migration out of Austin when people left during that period.

The Defining Moment by Jonathan Alter chronicles FDR's first 100 days and his leadership style, showing how he accomplished major transformation without legislation through executive power and political will.

Bad Samaritans by Ha-Joon Chang tells the history of how developed countries including the US used active government intervention and industrial policy to develop, contradicting the claim that market-only approaches were historically responsible for their success.

It is not enough to have a single public financing institution; effective mission-mode requires an entire ecosystem of financing and executing institutions across sectors with different mechanisms tailored to sectoral needs.

Kim Phillips-Fein's book 'Invisible Hands' documents a 40-year ideological push against New Deal-style government intervention by conservative intellectual forces, explaining how the political imagination about what government could do shifted across decades.

America had major public financing and executing institutions across sectors during WWII era, which America has largely abandoned in the post-1970s period, while China and Europe maintain versions of these institutions for industrial policy and infrastructure development.

People voted for Obama, Trump, and Biden expecting mission-driven transformation, but the political class failed to deliver; the hunger for transformative change is already present, and the challenge is whether political leadership can pitch and execute an actual mission.

A major bottleneck limiting electric grid expansion is transformer shortage: only a few companies make transformers and only one makes the electric steel needed for them; no new entrants are appearing despite clear need, exemplifying where proactive public financing would push expansion.

Germany maintains various sectoral financing mechanisms including agricultural co-op banks and financing for small and medium manufacturing, which support a diversified economy; China similarly uses industrial banks to fund projects across sectors, showing international models for proactive public financing.

Destructive Creation by Mark Wilson documents the details of WWII industrial mobilization and demonstrates how remarkable and comprehensive the transformation was, showing that mission-mode mobilization at scale is historically real and achievable.