Category Archives: Infrastructure

Australian Funds Take Aim at Private Equity by Moving to Do Deals in House

More challenges to private equity firms, now from super sized Australian “super” funds who are bringing PE in house.

Book Review: America’s Long Struggle to Tame Its Greatest Rivers

Rivers are live entities. Alter its flow, and a river will respond — though it might take humans time to notice.

Parking Reform Could Reenergize Downtowns – Here’s What Happened When Buffalo Changed its Zoning Rule

Rezoning cities to prioritize people instead of parking would free more space for affordable housing and encourage use of public transportation.

Keystone XL Developer Abandons Pipeline Project

In an apparent victory for environmentalists, the developer of the Keystone XL pipeline has pulled the plug on the project.

The Front Lines of Climate Change: Cyclone Yaas and the Sundarbans

Cyclone Yaas smacked India and Bangladesh in late May. Its most severe impact was on the Sundarbans, the vast delta the two countries share.

Sputtering About Crypto and the US Pipeline Ransomware Attack

You can hear the silence about the role of crypto in the Colonial Pipeline and a growing spate of ransom demands.

Stock Buybacks Stand in the Way of Biden’s Infrastructure Plan

Hedge fund managers are pushing U.S. firms to play Wall Street games instead of investing in technologies of the future.

Nomi Prins: To Build or Not to Build? The Infrastructure Question

For all sorts of bad reasons, American has a huge infrastructure spending backlog. But can we even do the job well?

Why the U.S. Manufacturing Renaissance Is Essential for U.S. Survival

Maintaining and reviving manufacturing capacity in key insutries is vital to preserving jobs and ensuring U.S. survival.

Wolf Richter: Signs Are Everywhere: Businesses Have Changed Permanently as a Result of the Pandemic

The pandemic has caused many shifts in how businesses operate: permanent and many are positives and should have happened a long time ago.

New Report: U.S. Dams, Levees Get D Grades, Need $115 Billion in Upgrades

Heavier precipitation caused by climate change is straining aging flood-control systems throughout the U.S.

America Needs New Infrastructure to Survive, But Will Biden Deliver?

What will come of Biden’s grand infrastructure plans? And will they be as green as he promised?

The Internet’s Big Carbon Footprint Need Not Doom the Climate

Efficiency and renewable energy can help make the internet more sustainable.

“Build Back Better” Needs an Agenda for Upward Mobility

Why Biden’s “Build Back Better” could make a big difference for what was once the American middle class….charitably assuming he meant it.