Webinar: Veterans' Day 2020 - "The RFC and FDR's WW II Economic Mobilization---A Model for Today"
Channel: Coalition for a National Infrastructure Bank
Date: 2020-11-12

Nov 11, 2020.  For more information:  https://www.nibcoalition.com/

DESCRIPTION:
In honor of Veterans' Day, the Coalition for a National Infrastructure Bank sponsored a webinar on the parallel between the WWII industrial mobilization and the need for an equally robust effort to repair and modernize the infrastructure and industry of the U.S. economy today. It highlighted the crucial role played by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in helping to finance much of the effort in concert with other government agencies and the U.S. Congress. 

SPEAKERS:
Steven Fenberg, Author, "Unprecedented Power: Jesse Jones, Capitalism, and the Common Good,” Writer and Executive Producer of the Emmy Award-winning documentary "Brother, Can You Spare a Billion?"    

Alphecca Muttardy—Macroeconomist; Economic Policy Director, Coalition for the National Infrastructure Bank   

Robert Lynn, Organizer, UA Local 50 (ret), Toledo, Ohio; Labor Coordinator, Coalition for a National Infrastructure Bank

Moderator: Jack Hanna, former Treasurer and Interim Chairman, Pennsylvania State Democratic Party