Furman: “Recovery began in mid-2020, and real GDP growth was a strong 5.6 percent in the first quarter of 2021, before much, if any, of the American Rescue Plan funds had worked their way through the economy.“
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> The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law did little to address the root causes of the United States’ long-standing infrastructure unaffordability problem—excessive environmental reviews, labyrinthine permitting processes, and laws requiring that workers are paid prevailing wages—and, in some respects, worsened the crisis by adding new requirements.
It’s crazy how much the US is being held back by process
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This is a really good in-depth piece and deserves a couple pings.
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Furman: “Recovery began in mid-2020, and real GDP growth was a strong 5.6 percent in the first quarter of 2021, before much, if any, of the American Rescue Plan funds had worked their way through the economy.“
> The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law did little to address the root causes of the United States’ long-standing infrastructure unaffordability problem—excessive environmental reviews, labyrinthine permitting processes, and laws requiring that workers are paid prevailing wages—and, in some respects, worsened the crisis by adding new requirements.
It’s crazy how much the US is being held back by process
This is a really good in-depth piece and deserves a couple pings.
It’s a pretty harsh indictment of “bidenomics”