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Howard Lutnick: “We want to build $100 billion of nuclear plants, they will…”

Featuring: Howard Lutnick, Secretary of Commerce | National

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Published | Video Starts at 32:07

This is not Toyota building a factory in America. They literally will finance any project we want to build in America as long as it's a good cash flowing project. Nuclear. We want to build $100 billion of nuclear plants, they will pay for it. So what happens is they'll borrow the money on a 30 year bond in Japan. So the Japanese government goes and raises the 550 billion from their domestic bondholders. (32:07–32:13)

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Asserts that Japan will finance $100 billion for nuclear plant construction in America.

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