Today on TAP: Commerce Department urges chip-makers facing a construction labor crunch to offer child care, use union workers.
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‘We Don’t Want a Subsidy Race’
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo is set to unveil guidance on CHIPS Act funding for domestic semiconductor manufacturing.
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Reclaiming U.S. Industry
Biden’s industrial policies represent a stunning ideological reversal. The harder part will be making them work.
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The Risks of the Biden Escalation
A false choice has been set up between neoliberal globalization and economic rearmament.
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Industrial Policy: Now Comes the Hard Part
Enacting large-scale bipartisan legislation was a minor miracle. It will take an even bigger miracle to spend all that money effectively.
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Jason Furman’s Lazy Economics
Today on TAP: Why do reporters covering recession, inflation, and interest rates keep treating Furman as a sage?
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An Industrial Policy Without Worker Protections
The domestic manufacturing bill was meant to be the new frontier of bringing good jobs to America. But workers became an afterthought.
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Big Business Loves Government Spending
Today on TAP: When the spending’s on them, as it is in the CHIPS bill, which cleared a major Senate hurdle today
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Capitalism’s Endemic Shortages
Today on TAP: Oil to end Russia’s stranglehold on Europe? Creating enough semiconductors? Only publicly owned companies can deliver those goods.
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The Trade Fight That Could Doom Biden’s Industrial Policy
A long-awaited bipartisan bill on domestic manufacturing could run aground because of House-Senate differences over its trade chapter—reflecting intense corporate lobbying.
