The semiconductor shortage and its impact reveals the need for much better coordination of trade, industrial, national-security, and supply chain policy.
Supply Chain
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Real Shortages in the U.S. Economy
It’s not a shortage of labor, it’s a shortage of attentiveness to how the economy has failed its citizens.
Posted inFirst 100
First 100: The Bumpy Picture of Post-Pandemic Economics
We will see a boom living alongside employment struggles, shortages and supply shocks.
Posted inFirst 100
First 100: The Things Out of Biden’s Control
You try to set up an agenda and a boat gets stuck in the Suez Canal.
Posted inTAP
The Bogus Corporate Counteroffensive Defending China
Today on TAP: A new Chamber of Commerce report misleads
Posted inFirst 100
First 100: The Obscure Issues Biden Must Address
There’s more in heaven and Earth than pandemic response.
Posted inFirst 100
Vaccine Rollout Moves Toward a Supply Snag
Plus, relief talks point to a checks and shots strategy.
Posted inCoronavirus
Unsanitized: Distributing the Vaccine, Here and Abroad
Supply chain issues may be a concern; lack of access to the developing world is far greater of a calamity. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for December 8, 2020.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Industrial Revolutionaries
To understand how to revitalize our economy, you only have to look back to the founders.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Amazon’s Private Government
A new patent cements the company’s aims to use its power over sellers to consolidate control.
