The Bond Buyer: Future of Infrastructure: Recent Episodes
The Bond Buyer
The Future of Infrastructure is a series of deep dives into U.S. infrastructure opportunities, investments, and impact from The Bond Buyer. In the first four-part installment, Build What Better?, investigative journalist Peter Keating and his guests explore changes the new infrastructure law is bringing to landscapes and markets around the United States.
We discuss the growth in the market for bonds designed to make an environmental or social impact – and the surprisingly sparse requirements for its participants. Peter Keating with guests Emily Brock (Government Finance Officers Association) and Jennifer Brooks (Ballard Spahr).
We discuss energy provisions in the new infrastructure law – how much they will fight climate change, and how far they will move America toward a carbon-free future. Peter Keating with guests Ben King (Rhodium Group), Morgan Hickman (Center for Strategic and International Studies) and Adam Stern (Breckinridge Capital Advisors).
Three kinds of new projects that could benefit from the new infrastructure law – and how state and local officials can leverage its $550-billion bounty to maximum effect. Peter Keating with guests Joung Lee (AASHTO), Erik Olson (NRDC), and Peter Rogoff (Sound Transit).
Peter Keating and guests discuss the state of American infrastructure and how much the Biden Administration’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act will move the needle when it comes to launching new projects.