It means water purification plants. It means new market for truckers and sugar planters. We invest in emerging international markets to create high volume consumers for American products. And it is smart that we do so. We do not have a vehicle to transport capital to the under-served here in Chicago.
Empowerment zones are like a car without a motor.
Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are models, but their mandates are too limited. The fact is that the largest, safest, most secure, most accessible emerging market in the world is not in China, Indonesia, South Africa, or Poland. It is here in America's cities. It is here in Chicago's south and west sides. Just as in emerging markets overseas, the emerging markets here in Chicago offer both LaSalle Street firms and minority businesses economic growth opportunities.