A fishing conglomerate created a fake company to facilitate a merger. It could now be on the hook for billions of dollars.
Supply Chain
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Administration Playing From Behind on Domestic Solar Production
There are seven different trade actions to limit Chinese dominance of solar components. But only now is trade policy being aligned with industrial policy.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Why Auto Insurance Rates Are Out of Control
The factors are partly structural, but also have to do with a corporate drive for profits and use of technology to precision-target customers.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Tariffs Give U.S. Automakers a Fleeting Chance
The Biden administration is protecting its investment in a domestic auto industry. Domestic auto producers have to rise to the moment.
Posted inTransportation
The Long Road Back for the Port of Baltimore
For the moment, Maryland officials are focused on crisis management.
Posted inTAP
The Ever-Present Threat of Supply Shocks
Today on TAP: The Francis Scott Key Bridge tragedy in Baltimore is a reminder that sudden changes to how we move goods around the world can happen anytime.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Pandemic-Era Corporate Bullying
The Federal Trade Commission found that big retailers threatened to punish suppliers unless they got first dibs on food and household goods.
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
Why Were Inflation Hawks Wrong?
Economists like Larry Summers predicted that bringing inflation down would require a large increase in unemployment. It didn’t.
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.
