Rebuilding America

A National Infrastructure Bank

Rebuilding America was the title of a recent show on Diane Rehm. Ed Rendell, former Pennsylvania governor and now head of a non-profit promoting the creation of a national infrastructure bank. There seems to be some momentum for this idea and I think the country and the industry would gain a lot from its implementation. It is not a new idea. In fact, there is a lecture on the internet from a couple of years ago, when the financial crisis first hit, that featured David Harvey arguing for the same thing. I will try to find it and post later. But it seems to me that this idea represents some kind of consensus for a program on both the right and left.