Infrastructure Bank

Infrastructure Banks Gain Traction -- Revisiting Geithner

Michael Likosky | Posted 05.29.2012

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The success of financial reform will not be judged based upon the life of specific provisions within Dodd-Frank, however important and vital.

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Rahm Emanuel's Chicago Infrastructure Trust

Michael Likosky | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Citi, Infrastructure, Clinton Global Initiative, Rush Limbaugh, Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, Public-Private-Partnerships, Infrastructure Bank, Chicago Infrastructure Trust, Paul Krugman, Ullico, Politics News

Manufacturers need state-of-the-art logistics to bring raw materials into their plants and then finished products to global markets. Moreover, Chicago must be a high-capacity transportation hub for the sake of regional growth.

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Chicago Infrastructure Trust Passes But Unanswered Question Remains: Who Benefits?

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 04.24.2012

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Before a proposal to create a Chicago Infrastructure Trust passed Tuesday, debate hinged on one question that critics say is still unanswered: whether...

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Governor Cuomo's New York Works

Michael Likosky | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Infrastructure Bank, New York Works, Governor Andrew Cuomo, Public-Private-Partnerships, Politics News

For too long, the State of New York has been a patchwork balkanized economy. Our difficulty in working together -- across region, locality, sector, party, branch of government, etc. -- has been both the result and cause of this lack of state-wide economic cohesion.

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Infrastructure Problems In U.S. Go Far Beyond Dollars

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 02.03.2012

Read More: Infrastructure Bank, Infrastructure, Obama Infrastructure, Toll Roads, Video, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Economic Stimulus Package, Asce, Chris Gregoire, Columbia River Crossing, Michael Mandel, Grand Parkway, User Fees, American Society of Civil Engineers, Politics News

NEW YORK -- When travelers from abroad come to this city, the financial and cultural capital of the world's richest nation, two dilapidated and depres...

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A Lesson From Occupy Wall Street

Christopher H. Lee | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Taxes, Infrastructure Bank, Congress, White House, Boehner, Spending, Occupy Wall Street, Obama, American Dream, Politics News

Although OWS is largely a shape-shifting cloud of ideas and frustrations, there is one concrete solution emanating from the tents worth noting: bold, visionary investment in America's infrastructure.

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Gov Cuomo Infrastructure Fund, U.S. Senators Best Practices, and an American Infrastructure Bank

Michael Likosky | Posted 02.08.2012

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Governor Cuomo's plan is the most ambitious proposal at the state level to create a NEW multi-sector infrastructure bank. It is benchmarked on national and international best practices.

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The Lost Profession of Banking

John Fullerton | Posted 11.29.2011

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The time has come for an intelligent, independently-governed, public infrastructure bank, ideally partnering with real banks that see their public purpose as a profession, focused on productive lending in the real economy.

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Offshore Drilling: House Republicans Offer Old Idea As New Infrastructure Solution

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Infrastructure Bank, Infrastructure, American Jobs Act, Highways, Oil Spill, American Infrastructure Financing Authority, Offshore Drilling, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Responding to President Obama's call in the American Jobs Act for increased infrastructure spending, House Republicans are offering up a...

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A Game Changing Infrastructure Investment Strategy

Christopher H. Lee | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Infrastructure Bank, Infrastructure, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, American Jobs Act, Third Industrial Revolution, Politics News

We need a game changing infrastructure revitalization strategy for the millions of quality jobs the Administration and Congress failed to create two years ago. We need to be bolder, smarter and think like Jack Kennedy did when he challenged us to reach for the moon.

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The Politics of Discrediting America

Paul A. London | Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Infrastructure Bank, Public Works, Infrastructure, Infrastructure Investment, Economic Stimulus Package, Federal Budget Deficit, Federal Deficit, Economic Recession, Broke USA, Feder, Federal Reserve, Obama Infrastructure Plan, Politics News

Is the United States "broke"? John Boehner, the Republican Speaker of the House, says it is. According to Boehner, the U.S. is like a family in desp...

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Thoughts on Our Federal Government, Taxes, Small Business and More

Mark Cuban | Posted 11.21.2011

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Our Congress has progressively lost the moral hazard of doing what is right for the country rather than doing what is right for the party and politician.

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Labor Day Stories: Unions and Businesses Forging Public-Private-Partnerships

Michael Likosky | Posted 11.04.2011

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Here are 5 ways that labor unions are advancing private-investment-driven solutions to our crisis, and promoting export-led growth -- in partnership with businesses.

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It's Time To Play in the 3-I League

Ed Crego, George Muñoz and Frank Islam | Posted 11.02.2011

Read More: Infrastructure Bank, Infrastructure, John Kerry, Manufacturing, Ben Bernanke, Rep. Rosa DeLauro, Innovation, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Politics News

In our opinion, reforming the entire fiscal policy process is too abstract and overly ambitious -- especially in these contentious times.

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Bipartisanship Post-Labor-Day: P3s and a National Infrastructure Bank

Michael Likosky | Posted 10.29.2011

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An Infrastructure Bank and other public-private partnership initiatives can spur private investment in the physical, social, health and human services, traditional and renewable energy, and mining projects necessary to create jobs.

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What Do the Earthquake, Infrastructure and Antiquated Accounting Have to Do With Jobs?

Robert Creamer | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Infrastructure Bank, Federal Accounting, Deficit, Earthquake, Infrastructure, Republicans, Schakowsky Jobs Bill, Politics News

What do yesterday's east coast earthquake, our infrastructure and antiquated Federal accounting systems have to do with jobs? A lot, it turns out.

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Economic History Holds the Answers

Paul A. London | Posted 09.30.2011

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It took the United States 10 years to recover from the Crash that ended the stock speculation of the late 1920s. It may take longer to emerge from the aftermath of the housing crash of 2007.

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Corporate Tax Holiday Could Create Infrastructure Bank -- But Devil Is In The Details

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 08.22.2011

Read More: Infrastructure Bank, Chuck Schumer, Infrastructure, Rahm Emanuel, Corporate-Income-Tax, Tax Holiday, Rosa DeLauro, Repatriation Tax Holiday, Andy Stern, Business News

Rahm Emanuel has a proposition. A grand one, for big business, big unions, and Congress: let a corporate income tax holiday pay for a national infrast...

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Riding White Water Economics Without Paddles and Rudder

Steve Clemons | Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: Infrastructure Bank, Depression, Jared Bernstein, Birch Bayh, Kenneth Rogoff, George Soros, 1937, Economic Shocks, Robert Johnson, Barack Obama, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Joseph Stiglitz, Financial Crisis, Inet, Economic Corruption, Greece, Politics News

What would it take for Pleasantville to become modern-day Greece -- where people are losing all that they have built and the social stress is undermining the solvency of the state?

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