Over the course of the last few columns, I’ve talked about two big reasons why I’m bullish on 2025. The first is the productivity boom occurring in the U.S. (American workers are doing more with less.) The second is the pro-business policies of the incoming Donald Trump administration. (Tax cuts, deregulation, Opportunity Zones, and less government waste will ignite further economic growth and higher corporate profits.) Yet these reasons weren’t convincing for some readers. A few wrote to tell me it would take a lot more than that to change all the negative trends in this country. I can only...