Donald S. Beyer, Jr.: “Wealth, as we discussed today, is an enabler of opportunity.”

The top one percent owns roughly 50 percent of all corporate equities, and only about half of the U.S. households own any stock at all.

Thank you all very much for being here. And I want to thank you for joining me in this vital conversation about the economic cost of shareholder primacy.

Far from guaranteed, the speed and strength of our economic recovery is a direct result of increased public investment.

We cannot let it be that one of the most critical components of so much of our technology is not actually manufactured here in the United States.