It is about 40 minutes. [applause] in 2016 for Work Force Development also raising to third for startups activity in the sixth best date for business. Despite being the most difficult budget year in my time in office we are proactive than forward looking. The Capital Construction project minority in modernizing the state facilities like the wyoming state hospital, Life Resource Center and veterans home. Groundbreaking High Altitude Performance Center and a Research Building last fall. The Innovative Test Center last spring and that to university of wyoming may open the facility march 2016 in the research facility. We have had incredible opportunities with wealth created by many businesses we are grateful for so many partnerships we are partners and with continued good relations to the tribe. Sergio is here today and has kindly agreed to be in the informal capacity until a new person is chosen we appreciate that lurk to improve communication but the tribal members please stand we would
Defenses. The first session for the evening is from pete and joyce giving Public Sector perspective on this topic. Pete was former cto for department of energy, currently a member of icit gala board and ceo of doths and bridges. Joyce Hunter Deputy cio policy and planning for u. S. Department of agriculture. So please help me welcome our first speakers. Great, thanks, parham. I appreciate the chance to be here. Two villanova grads, if youre wondering what the v stand for, pretty excited, it was a good year for us. Again, im only about nine, nine and a half, ten months removed from the federal government. Whats most exciting after 25 years and spending the last 7 1 2 or so at the department of energy was the opportunity to sort of take what i was doing in my role there. That was working inarguably the members us of the critical sectors, the 16 we know exist today but also on this panel or this conversation were going to talk a bit about how joyce at the usda and department of energy, co
Ahead of estimates overall, werent we . Were just getting some it is not a good open. Details on these numbers. It was better than estimated on both of those counts. What we see, we just got a extent theng asia country by country breakdown lastff we saw that started market by market. There was a pretty big increase in exports to hong kong, more week. The s p 500 having its worst than 30 . Week in two years. Youll remember that was the you had a drop in the small caps place where a lot of the fake index. Over the weekend, some of the invoicing toomings last year. Middle eastern markets were absolutely hammered. Alleged to have taken place. Were going to be taking a we are seeing risk aversion closer look at these numbers continue across the region and looking at that more closely today. Today. South korea also saw a jump in japan is closed for a sports day. A lot of these indicators that imports. Chinas exports from south show you risk appetite, the korea also jumped. Were still trying
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Brookings both for people in the room, who are watching on cspan and i via webcast to the closing event of infrastructure week. So a lot of folks public, private, civic have been involved in designing infrastructure week and pulling it off, and to all of you from brookings, thank you. And also thank you to the foundations and corporations that really have made our work possible. The ford foundation, the [inaudible] foundation, hitachi, aig, ge, rbc, kkr and all the members of our metropolitan leadership council. They really have made our research possible. Now, the timing of this week could not be better. And i know congressman delaneys going to talk about this. There are clearly shortterm federal actions involving the gas tax and the Highway Trust Fund that are critical and really a new way of the National Government engaging. But there really are metaissues that are incoming this week informing this week. Does the United States have what it takes to build and retrofit a new generatio