Financialization means the fraction of GDP in the finance sector. You can graph it. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Financialization" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Financialization</a><p>Free market ideology means stuff peddled by CEI, Heritage, Grover Norquist - tax the rich less, deregulate, fight unions. This doesn&#x27;t seem especially nonspecific to me.<p>Also, spending as fraction of GDP hasn&#x27;t changed that much over time. What has changed is interest rates, which leads to debt accumulation.