ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the financial mechanisms used to mobilize existing capital, and more work should be done to determine where private capital lies, and the best ways to leverage these funds. People possess the scientific and technological capital to move towards global sustainability, yet the infrastructure crisis is characterized by an oversupply of capital and an undersupply of investable projects. Forestalling infrastructure investment is costing the US its competitive edge economically and politically and is a threat to national security in the form of significant expenditures and stress on the financial system. The value of fixed income instruments represents the overall amount of cash lent out to other parties. This value has been calculated at USD $100 trillion, making fixed income the largest asset class. Property represents the value of peoples' homes, which totals to $95 trillion globally.
