The Trump administration is readying an executive order preempting constraints on AI. It could become a much more wide-ranging deregulatory tool.
Commerce Department
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Trump Deal Lets Intel Move Factories Overseas, Sen. Warren Explains
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.
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Trump’s Stagflation
Today on TAP: It’s not easy to engineer the combination of rising prices and falling economy output, but Trump is well on the way.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Elon Musk’s Next Potential Self-Enrichment
His Starlink internet service could benefit from a proposed Republican fire sale of the government’s wireless spectrum.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
NOAA’s Crossfire Hurricane
Project 2025 shows that Republicans can’t take heat—so they’d try to blow up the kitchen if they get the chance.
Posted inWorking in America
How Much Will the CHIPS Act Help the Workers Who Make Them?
The Commerce Department’s standards don’t require companies receiving billions in public funds to allow their workers to unionize.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Intel’s $3.5 Billion Boondoggle
The microchip giant’s ‘secure enclave’ project will take nearly 10 percent of a CHIPS Act manufacturing fund that is already stretched thin.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Will Biden Get Chip Markets Right?
A new paper outlines how to avoid worsening market concentration in semiconductors with billions in subsidies for U.S. onshoring.
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Is the Good Economic News Good for Biden?
Today on TAP: Yes, if the president plays it astutely. But other factors could matter more.