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US infrastructure may be underrated, but that doesn’t mean it couldn’t use an...
McKinsey Global Institute is out with a big report on infrastructure. I think what you can conclude about the state of things in the US is that while our infrastructure could use a big upgrade —...
View ArticleThis is the math for spending $2 trillion on US infrastructure
From economist Larry Summers: For the foreseeable future, there is no danger that the United States will overinvest in infrastructure. An increase in infrastructure investment of 1 percent of gross...
View ArticleBuilding a 21st-century transportation system: Federal, state, and private roles
America’s transportation network faces numerous problems. The American Society of Civil Engineers consistently assigns US infrastructure low grades. With revenue from federal fossil-fuel taxes...
View ArticlePrivate Participation in US Infrastructure: The Role of PPP Units
Key Points The United States suffers from an array of endemic infrastructure problems. When properly executed, public-private partnerships (PPPs) can help address those problems. The United States lags...
View ArticleWhat policymakers should know before fixing America’s infrastructure
With a $275 billion plan to be implemented over a five year period, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has already promised to make infrastructure investment a major focus of her first 100 days in...
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Getting public-private partnerships right
Michael Boskin in “All Aboard the Infrastructure Boondoggle” in The Wall Street Journal worries that, if Congress passes the large added infrastructure package advocated by both presidential...
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More than a few mistakes on infrastructure
A December 2016 Wall Street Journal piece entitled “Trump’s Infrastructure Mistake” by Alan Blinder and Alan Krueger contains several disconcerting omissions. Messrs. Blinder and Krueger criticize...
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Rebuild our defenses for the information age - transportation infrastructure...
Editor’s note: The next president is in for a rough welcome to the Oval Office given the list of immediate crises and slow-burning policy challenges, both foreign and domestic. What should Washington...
View ArticleThe right way to run a railroad - transportation infrastructure - aei
Infrastructure is rising to the top of President Donald Trump’s agenda. He reportedly wants to put tax credits for infrastructure investment in a tax-reform bill Congress is expected to produce this...
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Driverless cars are as much an infrastructure challenge as a tech one -...
Building autonomous vehicles is a daunting engineering challenge. But so is preparing the roadways on which they will operate. It’s the latter you don’t hear much about, certainly versus the daily...
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Anti-growth housing policy may have seriously damaged the US economy for...
In a dynamic economy, finance, ideas, people, and other resources flow to their most productive use. It’s an economy of constant disruption and change. Companies rise and fall, begin and end. Workers...
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