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Howard Lutnick: “What we came up with was $550 billion that this is not…”

Featuring: Howard Lutnick, Secretary of Commerce | National

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Published | Video Starts at 31:44

You know, I've always described my business success in life. I always came at it like this, okay, and then this, this, this sooner or later success, sooner or later I got through. So What we came up with was $550 billion that this is not foreign direct investment. 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. (31:44–32:06)

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Asserts that Japan will finance $550 billion in American projects, not as foreign direct investment.

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