The new film charts the conflict between making a good product and pleasing investors.
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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.
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The Tech Lobbying Is Coming From Inside the House
Emails from the U.S. trade representative’s office show a cozy relationship with Amazon, Google, and Facebook.
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Does Janet Yellen Have Her Own China Policy?
Today on TAP: Her recent speech reassuring Beijing was oddly soft-line and ill-timed.
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Big Tech Lobbyists Explain How They Took Over Washington
An amazing research paper unearths how the tech industry invented the concept of digital trade and sold it to government officials.
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White House Offers Climate Subsidies to Rich Allies
‘The advanced economies are closing in on themselves’
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Corporations Dominate Trade Advisory Panels
Trade advisers get special access to agreements and can comment on them before they are made public. More than 4 out of 5 advisers represent corporations.
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Free-Trade Deals Lite
To appease industrialized allies, the White House could undermine the delicate coalition backing domestic green manufacturing.
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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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Critical Tests for the Biden Administration’s New Team
If the new chief of staff and National Economic Council Director want to prove that they aren’t diverting the administration back to a neoliberal footing, here are a few options.
