Ella Coon

Oct 3, 2024 | phenomenalworld.org | Henry M.J. Tonks |Ella Coon |Andrew Elrod

A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism By Nelson Lichtenstein and Judith Stein Princeton University Press, 2023 Campaigning for the presidency in the midst of the 2008 economic crisis, Hillary Clinton would put this arch question to critics of her husband’s presidency: “I always wonder what part of the 1990s they didn’t like: the peace or the prosperity?” Historians of the United States agree that such nostalgia for the 1990s misinterprets the...

Jul 11, 2024 | phenomenalworld.org | Ella Coon

On October 7, 2022, the US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) released the implementing rules to support Joe Biden’s export controls policy against China.

Jun 24, 2023 | phenomenalworld.org | Susannah Glickman |Roy Cobby |Ella Coon

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2003. Securing the Future: Regional and National Programs to Support the Semiconductor Industry. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. ↩Author interview with Paolo Gargini February 18th, 2022.

Apr 5, 2023 | phenomenalworld.org | Roy Cobby |Ella Coon |Herman Schwartz

The headline “World trade war looms over microchip accord” seems like it could come from any news source today, but it in fact appeared in Nature back in February 1987, when the US had signed bilateral agreements with Japan to promote its own semiconductor exports and limit imports from the latter. European governments, in turn, were angry at what they saw as the cartelization of the global market.