Energy: Can We Really Expect $1.5 Trillion in Infrastructure Spending?
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2018
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
We get expert opinion from Eugene Mulero of Transport Topics on the President’s proposal for infrastructure spending. We discuss doubts and concerns with the plan, and an alternative – more likely – timeline.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the show that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day. |
| 0:06.5 | Today we're talking energy and industrial. It's Thursday the 1st of March and we're going to be discussing infrastructure spending. |
| 0:12.2 | I'm your host Sarah Priestley and joining me in the studio is a very special guest. |
| 0:16.0 | Eugene Malera from transport topics, welcome to the show. |
| 0:19.0 | Thanks for having me on. |
| 0:20.0 | No, thank you for coming. |
| 0:21.0 | Eugene spends a lot of his time up on Capitol Hill. |
| 0:25.0 | He's a regular now on C-SPAN, I believe. |
| 0:27.7 | It seems to be a regular. |
| 0:28.9 | Yeah, something like that. |
| 0:30.7 | And for anyone listening who doesn't know, Transport Topics is the go-to place for news in the freight transportation industry. |
| 0:36.8 | You guys cover everything from regulation to new tech to major industry events, but what's your particular area of interest? |
| 0:43.1 | I'm the congressional reporter on the team, so my primary focus are the transportation |
| 0:48.0 | policy committees on Capitol Hill and covering elections and some of the big states like Texas, New York, California, |
| 0:57.0 | the governor's offices, and just tracking funding policy from the freight transportation perspective. |
| 1:04.2 | So you've been very busy in the past couple years? |
| 1:07.2 | Yeah, totally. |
| 1:08.2 | So we're going to be talking about a hot button topic right now, which is infrastructure |
| 1:11.6 | spending. |
| 1:13.0 | President Trump made the improvement of infrastructure in the country a key part of his |
| 1:17.4 | campaigning. |
| 1:18.4 | Yes. |
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