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2 weeks ago | 
slate.com | Nitish Pahwa |Todd Tucker
The Industry Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. At the 12:01 a.m. Wednesday morning, the potentially chatbot-generated “reciprocal tariffs” that President Donald Trump announced at last week’s “Liberation Day” event went into effect.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
thenation.com | Todd Tucker
Economy / January 7, 2025 Biden Was Right to Block the US Steel TakeoverEven if losing domestic sources of primary steel does not seem like a national security threat today, it might tomorrow. Ad Policy US Steel’sCoke Works facility in Clairton, Pennylvania, on September 9, 2024. (Justin Merriman / Bloomberg via Getty Images)On Friday, President Joe Biden announced his decision to block the $14 billion acquisition of the US Steel company by Japan’s Nippon Steel Corporation.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Elizabeth Pancotti |Todd Tucker
POINT/COUNTERPOINT Credible climate policy must account for political and economic realities First published: 05 November 2024 No abstract is available for this article. REFERENCES Copley, M. (2022, May 23). A decade into tariffs, US solar manufacturing is still deep in Asia's shadow. S&P Global. https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights/latest-news-headlines/a-decade-into-tariffs-us-solar-manufacturing-is-still-deep-in-asia-s-shadow-70236202 Freedman, A.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Miriam Sapiro |Todd Tucker
Trade has gotten a bad name in the United States. In the past few decades, as the shine of globalization wore off, international trade became associated more with job losses, environmental degradation, and poor labor standards than with economic prosperity. It is a sentiment that tanked major U.S. trade initiatives, such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
democracyjournal.org | Elizabeth Pancotti |Todd Tucker |Matthew Yglesias
For years, tariffs were a nearly forgotten economic tool, widely considered bad policy by both sides of an entrenched free-trade consensus. Things have changed. Donald Trump argues that tariffs can do everything from pay for child care to eliminate the national deficit. The Biden Administration has used them to backstop environmental policy and as a geopolitical tool. We at Democracy weren’t sure what to think, so we invited three astute commentators to discuss the pros and cons.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
democracyjournal.org | Felicia Wong |Todd Tucker |Heidi Shierholz |Bharat Ramamurti
By The Editors from Spring 2024, No. 72 – 1 MIN READ Tagged symposium intro Eleven years ago, this journal published a symposium called “The Middle-Out Moment,” touting a new theory of growth no one had heard of. Today, everyone has heard of middle-out economics, but most people still don’t know exactly what it is.
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Apr 7, 2023 | 
adamtooze.substack.com | Adam Tooze |Todd Tucker
Did Putin’s war on Ukraine and the ensuing energy crisis lead to a retreat from the energy transition in Europe? Did Russian aggression expose the vanity of green ideology? Was a war what we needed to relearn the “basic math” that modern societies cannot do without some combination of fossil fuels and nuclear? This was the contention of pieces in Foreign Policy over the last 12 months notably by Brenda Shaffer and Ted Nordhaus.
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Apr 7, 2023 | 
tinyurl.com | Adam Tooze |Todd Tucker
Did Putin’s war on Ukraine and the ensuing energy crisis lead to a retreat from the energy transition in Europe? Did Russian aggression expose the vanity of green ideology? Was a war what we needed to relearn the “basic math” that modern societies cannot do without some combination of fossil fuels and nuclear? This was the contention of pieces in Foreign Policy over the last 12 months notably by Brenda Shaffer and Ted Nordhaus.
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Mar 27, 2023 | 
democracyjournal.org | Saule Omarova |Todd Tucker
Financial markets have had one of the most tumultuous winters in more than a decade. Last November, we witnessed the collapse of FTX, once seen as the model for relatively safe crypto businesses. Earlier this March, we saw the domino-like cratering of Silvergate, Silicon Valley Bank, and Signature Bank, three mainstream banking institutions that serviced clients in the tech and crypto industries. It is no coincidence that the current banking crisis began in the tech and crypto sectors.
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Mar 2, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Todd Tucker |Lenore Palladino |Mychal Denzel Smith
On Tuesday, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo unveiled a key new plank in the work-in-progress known as American industrial policy. After a decades-long trade regime that permitted private oligopolies to decide where and how to produce semiconductors, the Commerce Department launched a $39 billion incentives program to give grants, loans, and other financial support to businesses and nonprofits to build chip fabrication facilities in America. The move is notable for several reasons.
