Private-sector executives want to invest more in U.S. infrastructure projects but say regulatory and other barriers are hampering their efforts. Some agencies are addressing the problem.
Jack Ehnes, California State Teachers’ Retirement System CEO, told reporters in an Aug. 10 Bipartisan Policy Center conference call, “Clearly institutional investors have capital available. But we [in the U.S.] absolutely have a very uneven regulatory-political environment that has not made the country nearly as attractive as other parts of the world.”