TSMC’s $40 billion semiconductor facility in Phoenix, an open shop that resisted signing an agreement with labor unions, has been tainted with accidents, alleged wage theft, and costly setbacks.
industrial policy
Posted inEconomic Policy
How to Judge the New Industrial Policy
A focus solely on near-term GDP overlooks what’s being attempted.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Biden’s Unused Clean Energy Authority
A new report identifies several powerful options using the Defense Production Act to support the energy transition.
Posted inEconomic Policy
A Liberalism That Builds Power
The goals of domestic supply chains, good jobs, carbon reduction, and public input are inseparable.
Posted inTAP
The Global Race to the Bottom
Today on TAP: Will the Biden administration help Big Tech undermine consumer regulation by the EU and Asian nations?
Posted inTAP
Biden’s Bind on Solar
Kuttner on TAP: Should he go all out to support domestic manufacture, or keep the flow of solar panels coming from China?
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The Energy Department Is Spoiling Biden’s Plan to Stabilize Oil Prices
The DOE appears reluctant to use the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to buy and sell crude oil in a way that would ‘step into a quasi-market management role.’
Posted inTAP
Vox and the Undertow of Corporate Democrats
Today on TAP: Dylan Matthews’s screed attacking Biden’s industrial policies got an assist from former Treasury official Kimberly Clausing.
Posted inTAP
Does Janet Yellen Have Her Own China Policy?
Today on TAP: Her recent speech reassuring Beijing was oddly soft-line and ill-timed.
