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| Subject: CEOs Call for Less Regulation, Better Infrastructure Wed Sep 07, 2011 12:40 am | |
| Chief executives of some of the world's largest companies would support a U.S. effort to update aging infrastructure, financed in part by private money, as a way to create jobs and make U.S. business more competitive.
"I travel the world on a regular basis, and U.S. infrastructure is simply not competitive," says Tom Albanese, CEO of Rio Tinto Group, the global mining company. "We are living off the capital of 50 years ago. If the government can't fix our infrastructure crisis, [it should] allow private capital to be employed."
Marcelo Claure, chief executive of Brightstar Corp., the telecommunications-services company, agrees: ...
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