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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Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Occupy Honduras
Rural campesino groups return to land they allege was taken from them by palm oil corporations.
Posted inBooks
The Possible World After Globalism
If we can dethrone the reign of Big Finance and Big Tech, what new worlds can we imagine?
Posted inTAP
Connecting National Security to Economic Security
Today on TAP: President Biden toughens America’s stance toward China’s designs on U.S. technologies.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Does the U.S. Have a China Policy?
We actually have several, some at odds with others.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Manufacturing in the Green Industrial Policy Era
How the Inflation Reduction Act’s $50 billion for clean-energy manufacturing could launch the green industrial revolution
Posted inBooks
The Enablers of Predatory Capitalism
How free-market economists, central bankers, rapacious CEOs, and free-trade diplomats undermined the New Deal order
Posted inEconomic Policy
Agriculture’s Unflexed Muscle
In a world of elevated prices, the Tennessee Valley Authority has extensive authorities to research and produce fertilizer at its Muscle Shoals facilities.
Posted inTAP
Biden’s Striptease on China Tariffs
Today on TAP: Some aides keep hinting of coming cuts, while their leader dithers and sends mixed signals.
Posted inCoronavirus
WTO Fails to Promote COVID Vaccines
Today on TAP: And the U.S., despite Biden’s commitment to a waiver of drug company patent rights, sides with Pharma.
