In a letter to the Commerce Department, Warren blasts the actual deal between the Trump administration and Intel, even as she supports the concept of equity stakes.| The American Prospect
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The European Union has a well-established playbook for regulating industries dominated by U.S. firms: Identify a market where American companies are global leaders; Draft sweeping legislation grounded in vague principles like “fairness” or “sustainability”; and Create a regulatory structure that imposes disproportionate burdens on the largest and most successful (and usually foreign) companies. The EU’s ... The EU Proposes a DMA for Space The post The EU Proposes a DMA for Space...| Truth on the Market
Trump just announced a partial nationalization of one of America’s biggest tech giants. This is not contrary to Biden-era industrial policy but an extension of it, as well as an opportunity for greater public control over private capital.| Damage
The splashy new liberal rag says there is no war on workers and doubles down on open borders. Future President Steve Bannon must be thrilled.| Damage
It’s Trump, not Mamdani, who’s having government take over businesses.| The American Prospect
Today on TAP: Trump’s version is a joke. But even our version would have limited benefits.| The American Prospect
Global demand for critical minerals is increasing at a rapid pace, fueled by multiple factors including economic growth, the need for cleaner technologies and the NATO target of five per cent of GDP for annual defence spending, which in Canada is to be met in part by development of critical mineral resources. It won’t be […]| Magazines – Policy Options
Both the United States and China are pursuing national policies to promote the development of artificial intelligence (AI). In the United States, the White House’s recently announced AI Action Plan features a deregulatory approach to drive innovation and build an AI infrastructure that could be exported overseas. The Chinese government’s AI plan instead proposes a ... US-China AI Competition in the Spotlight The post US-China AI Competition in the Spotlight appeared first on Truth on the ...| Truth on the Market
On May 7th 2025, the Chilean government confirmed a report published earlier that morning: Chinese companies BYD and Yongqing Technology (Tsingshan Group) had abandoned their planned lithium cathode production facilities in Chile. This announcement dealt a significant blow to the ambitions of a country with a longstanding mining tradition, now striving to build industrial capabilities […]| Developing Economics
Today on TAP: Trump’s Pentagon just became the majority shareholder in America’s only rare-earths mine. Where’s the Republican outrage?| The American Prospect
Today on TAP: Don’t look for a grand strategy in Trump’s tariff policy—it’s mainly about impulsivity and bravado.| The American Prospect
We were addressed by Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor of the Exchequer. This article summarises the speech, and offers some comments. Rachel Reeves, the chancellor of the exchequer, spoke to Congress. In her speech, She covered a number of issues, starting| davelevy.info
The CEC presented a special paper on Industrial Strategy and Infrastructure. It argues that the UK needs an industrial policy, that needs to be public sector led, with appropriate [public] ownership models and central planning. The rest of this article, overleaf, explores the themes in more detail. ...| davelevy.info
At a June 4 hearing before the House Natural Resources Committee’s Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Subcommittee, lawmakers and industry representatives expressed growing frustration with what they described as an overregulated domestic seafood industry that is steadily losing ground to foreign competition.| Coalition For A Prosperous America
(I write a monthlyish opinion piece for Barron’s. This one was published there in April. My previous pieces are here.) | J. W. Mason
CFIUS warned that Nippon Steel could reduce U.S. steel output and harm critical industries. U.S. Steel executives, meanwhile, stood to personally profit tens of millions of dollars from this disastrous deal, putting their own financial interests above those of American workers and national interests.| Coalition For A Prosperous America
Elizabeth Popp Berman writes that the history of the antimonopoly movement and industrial policy in the United States shows that antitrust and industrial policy, currently considered by many to be in conflict, can complement each other in pursuit of shared goals.| ProMarket
Energy security has taken on new importance in wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. We can use existing tools to confront these challenges without sacrificing our climate goals.| Employ America
MP Materials, the only active rare earths mining company in the U.S., is making great progress. And yet at the same time, the company just reported a financial loss. The contradiction illustrates the challenges involved for the U.S. in rebuilding a rare earths industrial capability.| Coalition For A Prosperous America
China's 3rd Plenum sets the course for Chinese economic policy over the next five years. What will China's plans mean for Latin America?| The Dialogue
The turn to a “politics of building” is a welcome change in environmental thinking, but the green Left is still at odds in important ways with the labor movement, which better understands what is needed for deep decarbonization and, most importantly, has the power to help bring it about.| Damage
This post is the second in a series that uses the history and economics of the American semiconductor industry to ask big picture questions about the future of fiscal policy and industrial policy.| Employ America
The much-lauded CHIPS Act is not going well. And TSMC, which is supposedly to be one of the Act’s biggest beneficiaries, is starting to hedge against a failing industrial program. Since its passage 16 months ago, the Act’s implementation led by the Commerce Department has done very little| Interconnected
Many “global historians” argue that the British cotton industry was the product of (unintentional) infant industry protection from Indian competition in the 18th century. The various Ca…| pseudoerasmus
Some caveats and reservations about the Napoleonic blockade paper on the infant industry argument that’s making waves. My caveat: protection persisted for decades after the blockade and may h…| pseudoerasmus
British Tariff Protection after 1774: Competition, Innovation, & Misallocation, plus a note on Weaving This is an addendum to a post about the Calico Acts, which had prohibited within Britain t…| pseudoerasmus