If you had $1 billion to invest, how would you invest it, and why?

I spent ten years in government. The biggest thing I learned is that most of our problems won’t wait for a public solution, and plenty of them can be solved by building and investing.

So I’m asking everyone. I’m not asking how you’d spend it. I’m asking how you’d invest it. It doesn’t have to be all of it. Tell me where it goes and why.

Why I’m asking

I wrote an essay called Capital Is the Only Magnet. Its argument is that talent, companies, and eventually people follow capital. If that’s true, the most important economic question is where the money goes. So I’m asking everyone.