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An Ultra-Long Fix for America’s Highways, Bridges and Grid
Treasury bonds of 50 and 100 years can make U.S. infrastructure the envy of world again.
How’s your commute going?
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Given today’s contentious, divisive and outright ugly political discourse, there are very few policies that unite the left and right. Now, of all people, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin may be on to one: Infrastructure.
Repairing the nation’s highways, electrical grid, water systems and the like is one policy area where widespread agreement exists across nearly every political affiliation and persuasion. Sure, you can find a few extremists who insist that America’s roads, bridges and tunnels are just fine, but no one takes those cranks seriously.