We've nearly completed the separation of Church and State, of religion and politics. Clearly this takes automation and cumulatively improving programmed balance rather than error-prone, politically vulnerable, necessarily repeatable acts of discretion. This area is carefully neglected in standard economic research, which has tended to jump to quantification and make a maximum of investment at points of minimum return. An unknown theory of dynamic economic equilibrium. This is how Keynes' mentor, Alfred Marshall, thought of the economic puzzle.
Business wants something for nothing.
It wants to produce stuff to sell without producing people to sell it to. It wants government to take care of that - without taxes. It whines about big government and taxes. In 1999, this relationship broke down. Interest rates rose steadily all year, but stocks shrugged off the news and turned in another spectacular performance.