Instead of voting on a six year 350 billion highway bill the house is voting for a three year 8 billion ban bandaid, why . Because to refinance the export import bank, congress is playing politics with the nations highways and the house is start being its summer recess tomorrow meaning a longer term transportation solution will not be debated until the fall. That is textbook kicking the can. Now here is why this matters. Americas infrastructure rates a d plus, power communication water power more, they get no more than a dplus grade on a report card, put out by the American Society of Civil Engineers. America needs to spend 3. 6 trillion by 2020, and not only are we doing enough to modernize our infrastructure, were barely maintaining what we have now. It used to be the envy, now were following behind the rest of the world. Down from seivet i seventh in 2. In case youre wondering, hong kong, singapore and the United Arab Emirates took the top three places last year. Hong kong, that joe
Bill the house is voting for a three year 8 billion ban bandaid, why . Because to re finance the export import bank, congress is playing politics with the nations highways and the house is start being its summer recess tomorrow meaning a longer term transportation solution will not be debated until the fall. That is textbook kicking the can. Now here is why this matters. Americas infrastructure rates a d plus, power communication water power more, they get no more than a dplus grade on a report card, put out by the American Society of Civil Engineers. America needs to spend 3. 6 trillion by 2020, and not only are we doing enough to modernize our infrastructure, were barely maintaining what we have now. It used to be the envy, now were following behind the rest of the world. Down from seivet i seventh in 23. In case youre wondering, hong kong, singapore and the United Arab Emirates took the top three places last year. Hong kong, that joe biden said had an airport so great, you would thi
Bill the house is voting for a three year 8 billion ban bandaid, why . Because to re finance the export import bank, congress is playing politics with the nations highways and the house is start being its summer recess tomorrow meaning a longer term transportation solution will not be debated until the fall. That is textbook kicking the can. Now here is why this matters. Americas infrastructure rates a d plus, power communication water power more, they get no more than a dplus grade on a report card, put out by the American Society of Civil Engineers. America needs to spend 3. 6 trillion by 2020, and not only are we doing enough to modernize our infrastructure, were barely maintaining what we have now. It used to be the envy, now were following behind the rest of the world. Down from seivet i seventh in 23. In case youre wondering, hong kong, singapore and the United Arab Emirates took the top three places last year. Hong kong, that joe biden said had an airport so great, you would thi
Another one. The s p 500 had its first per week in nearly 20 years. A per week is when you close with a record high every day all five days. Thats the first time its done that since march of 1998 been a big year for the dow, too. It had a per week last year. Its not the first time its done that this year. Both the s p 500 and dow are coming off of executive consecutive weekly gains hat tip because i didnt figure out these numbers, he did. S p futures up by another 3. 5. Nasdaq up by almost 14 overnight in asia, heres another place where weve seen record after record. Nikkei once again closing at another record high. Up another 1. 1 . Gain of almost 240 points to 21,696 this is the highest level theyve seen in 20 years hang seng down. 6 percent and shanghai up by. 1 of a percent early trading in europe, most of the markets are trading higher dax up by. 6 cac is up a little bit higher. Ftse up a little bit and italy up a little bit. Crude oil prices and you will see that at least this mo