Infrastructure

The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has revised its global economic forecast, and things are looking up. It’s predicting 3.3 percent global growth in 2017, up from 2.9 this year and 0.1 percent higher than the prediction it issued in September. The organization is anticipating some stimulus to the U.S. economy under […]

A big infrastructure plan would boost rail shipments of construction materials.

Economic growth is likely to accelerate in the first year of Trump's presidency, based on his economic ideas. But his plans could also raise the risk of economic overheating and inflation.

Austin Golding, co-owner of Golding Barge Line, talks about his hopes under a Trump presidency

Donald Trump plans to use infrastructure spending to boost jobs and the economy.

The plan would produce a lot of new toll roads and bridges.

More than 30 state- and local-spending initiatives for transportation were approved.

So, what might our country look like under his policies?

Both presidential candidates see a role for the private sector in infrastructure.

Both are looking to infrastructure investment to help create jobs.