The biggest winners from the construction of Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful, powerful” wall along the US-Mexico border are likely to be Mexican cement companies and construction workers. “It would likely be a mixed labour force, but Mexicans would be much less expensive.”Activists burn an effigy representing US President Donald Trump in Mexico City. “As ludicrous as the Trump wall project sounds (to us at least), it represents a huge opportunity for those companies involved in its construction,” a Bernstein analyst said in a research report for investors. Last year Vicente Fox, the former Mexican president, said in a live interview on Fox Business Network TV: “I’m not going to pay for that fucking wall.” Trump responded saying: “The wall just got 10 ft taller.”Trump is due to meet the current Mexican president, Enrique Peña Nieto, next week. The Corps of Engineers has estimated a border wall would cost between $16.4 to $70m per mile.

Source: Hindustan Times January 26, 2017 03:14 UTC