Imagine the Future: How the $5 Trillion National Infrastructure Bank Will Creat a 21st Century USA
Channel: Coalition for a National Infrastructure Bank
Date: 2023-05-22

For more info: https://nibcoalition.com

INFRASTRUCTURE WEEK May 18, 2023 Webinar: “Imagine the Future: 
How the $5 Trillion National Infrastructure Bank Will Create a 21st Century USA”

This timely Infrastructure Week event occurred on the 90 th  anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s signing of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Act on May 18, 1933. FDR’s TVA miracle was one of the largest regional infrastructure projects in all of American history and was financed by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC). 

Infrastructure projects like the TVA are possible today if Congress creates the $5 trillion NIB. Imagine, high-speed trains crisscrossing the nation at 200 mph, new airports and gleaming mass transit systems, large-scale water projects, whole new drinking and sewer systems, in addition to millions of new affordable housing units. 

Shouldn't all Americans have access to the best quality infrastructure? 

Why not fix it all? Not just the 10% covered by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) of 2021. Congress has no need to worry because the NIB requires no new federal taxes, spending, or debt! It is a self-sustaining bank with the capacity to finance everything.

Let's not just stare into the frightening abyss of recession, stubborn inflation, and an ongoing banking collapse when the solution is right before us. We can build our way out of this crisis and erect a shining new infrastructure system second to none. We did it before and we can do it again.

Speakers:
Alphecca Muttardy, former Senior Economist, International Monetary Fund, Fairfax VA
Dr. Nomi Prins, Ph.D., author, former Managing Director Goldman Sachs, Los Angeles, CA
Dr. Alexander Metcalf , Ph.D., President, Transportation Economics and 
Management Company (TEMS), Frederick, MD 
Stanley Forczek, former Director of Finance Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor, 
Williamstown NJ
James ”Lou” Spencer , Assistant Business Manager UA Local 5 Plumbers and Gasfitters, Caret, VA​
Don Siefkes,  MIT-trained Chemical Engineer, San Leandro, CA
Julie Olsen, MBA; Chair Alaska Democratic Party Progressive Caucus, Anchorage, AK
Moderator: Craig Swartz, former City Councilman, Upper Sandusky, OH