A new paper outlines how to avoid worsening market concentration in semiconductors with billions in subsidies for U.S. onshoring.
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Posted inEnergy and the Environment
A More Actively Managed Decline?
Our staff writer reviews 2023 and her work.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Global Capitalists or National Champions?
As long as production is domestic, does it matter whether a company creating jobs for U.S. workers is American, German, or Japanese?
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Big Tech Has Penetrated the GAO
How the industry is positioned to shape the debate over U.S. industrial policy, and generally lobby for its interests, from within the ‘congressional watchdog’ agency
Posted inTAP
Will Biden Have Enough Chips in 2024?
Today on TAP: His industrial-policy programs are great. How much of an election year difference can they make?
Posted inWorking in America
Econ Commentators Join TSMC to Declare U.S. Workers’ Premature Defeat
The econ blogosphere hasn’t really checked, but knows in its heart American workers aren’t up to the job.
Posted inWorking in America
TSMC Phoenix Cuts Electrician Pay and Sends In Taiwanese Workers
After 50 union electricians left, TSMC reinstated incentive pay and offered 25 non-union workers dispatched from Taiwan.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Death of an Economic Theory
The notion that public investment crowds out private spending has taken a beating lately.
Posted inWorking in America
TSMC to Bring 500+ More Migrant Workers to Arizona
The chipmaking giant, which expects to receive up to $15 billion in federal tax credits and grants for its Arizona facility, says U.S. workers are not up to the job.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Modi Visit Part of a Geopolitical Great Game
India is seen as a strategic counterweight to China, and that has overridden any U.S. concerns about repression against ethnic minorities and the press.