{"id":3730,"date":"2010-09-17T07:44:30","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T12:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=3730"},"modified":"2010-09-17T09:44:36","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T14:44:36","slug":"obamas-national-infrastructure-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2010\/09\/obamas-national-infrastructure-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"obama&#8217;s national infrastructure bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Infrastructurist <\/em>has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infrastructurist.com\/2010\/09\/15\/is-the-national-infrastructure-bank-a-slam-dunk-win\/\">a quick summary of reactions<\/a> to the Obama administration&#8217;s proposed National Infrastructure Bank.\u00a0 (The reactions are mostly positive, from sources as diverse as the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703376504575491643198373362.html\">Wall Street Journal<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/blog\/the-avenue\/77523\/the-infrastructure-bank-triple-win\">The New Republic<\/a>.)\u00a0 Of course, enthusiasm for the proposal &#8212; which, as far as I can tell, is an excellent idea &#8212; should be <a href=\"http:\/\/pnunns.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/public-goods-private-goods.html\">grounded in an awareness of the massive gap<\/a> between the relatively small pool of money proposed for the bank &#8212; $50 billion &#8212; and the enormous sea of money &#8212; $2.2 trillion over the next five years &#8212; that would be required to actually restore our chronically underfunded infrastructures to good condition.\u00a0 (And, if I read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infrastructurereportcard.org\/\">Infrastructure Report Card<\/a> correctly, that&#8217;s just restoration, not building new infrastructures to under gird a competitive economy for the coming decades.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infrastructurist has a quick summary of reactions to the Obama administration&#8217;s proposed National Infrastructure Bank.\u00a0 (The reactions are mostly positive, from sources as diverse as the Wall Street Journal and The New Republic.)\u00a0 Of course, enthusiasm for the proposal &#8212; which, as far as I can tell, is an excellent idea &#8212; should be grounded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,143,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","category-economics","category-infrastructure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3730"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3732,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3730\/revisions\/3732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}