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I've spent the last 16 years managing $800M+ of public infrastructure across the New York metro from bridges, to tunnels, to transit, and heavy civil. The work is mostly about understanding constraints, tracking conditions as they change, and figuring out how problems roll downhill.
None of this is theorized from a Bloomberg Terminal or a peer reviewed study. I'm reporting from inside the supply chains, schedules, and costs that decide where the money actually lands.
Each issue traces money through one or more of these. Sometimes it's policy. Sometimes it's a contract award. Sometimes it's a supply chain crack you can hear opening.
Bridges, tunnels, transit, public works. The slowest, largest, most political flow of capital in the economy — and the one I work in every day.
Heavy civil, vertical, the supply chains and schedules behind them. Costs and timelines that decide which projects actually get built.
Oil, gas, renewables, grids. Decade-long bets that shape what infrastructure costs and where it goes for a generation.
Steel, semis, reshoring. Where things are physically made — and whether the policy fantasy survives contact with the economics.
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