-
Oct 23, 2024 | 
rooseveltforward.org | Todd Tucker
As the Biden administration enters its final months, the Roosevelt Institute and Roosevelt Forward have been looking back at the transformation of the American trade agenda over the past four years. Through a number of new pieces, we’ve examined how trade policy is being used to address challenges for labor and the climate crisis.
-
Oct 20, 2024 | 
rooseveltinstitute.org | Felicia Wong |Todd Tucker |Kate Gordon |Satyam Khanna
Executive SummaryOver the past few years, the United States has made the most significant change in its approach to trade in generations. Starting in the 1970s, trade policy was focused on neoliberal priorities such as promoting efficiency through tariff and cost reductions and limiting the space for purely national regulation of commerce.
-
Oct 8, 2024 | 
rooseveltinstitute.org | Todd Tucker |Kate Gordon |Satyam Khanna |Ronnie Chatterji
IntroductionThe Biden administration has advanced the most active industrial policy for the civilian economy since Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency.1 This includes grant and loan subsidies for industries the US strategically wants to promote, such as clean energy and semiconductors.
-
Sep 5, 2024 | 
rooseveltinstitute.org | Todd Tucker
President Biden caused an uproar in April when he stated that US Steel should remain “domestically owned and operated,” after the Japanese company Nippon Steel proposed to buy the former. In the months since, this has become a bipartisan rallying cry, with policymakers noting the steel dependence of US industries, infrastructure, and clean energy systems.
-
May 14, 2024 | 
rooseveltinstitute.org | Todd Tucker
Today, the US government announced 100 percent tariffs on electric vehicles imported from China, along with other restrictions on inputs into clean energy supply chains. This action offers critical support to the historic public and private sector decarbonization investments under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), CHIPS and Science Act, and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, ensuring they will not be threatened by imports that violate fair trade laws and will be viable in the future.
-
May 3, 2024 | 
rooseveltinstitute.org | Todd Tucker
As director of Industrial Policy and Trade, Dr. Tucker, a political scientist, helps lead Roosevelt's work on the role of governance and institutions (both national and international) in facilitating economic transformation.
-
Mar 13, 2024 | 
democracyjournal.org | Todd Tucker |Heidi Shierholz
The Biden Administration spent much of 2023 making the case for its industrial policies. In speech after speech, senior Administration officials argued for the economic virtues of what they would alternately call “modern supply-side economics,” a “new Washington consensus,” or simply “Bidenomics.”Yet, as we entered the 2024 election season, the topline message was different.
-
Mar 11, 2024 | 
rooseveltinstitute.org | Todd Tucker
As director of industrial policy and trade, Dr. Tucker, a political scientist, helps lead Roosevelt's work on the role of governance and institutions (both national and international) in facilitating economic transformation.
-
Mar 8, 2024 | 
volts.wtf | David Roberts |Todd Tucker
In this episode, we go deep on industrial policy with Todd Tucker of the Roosevelt Institute. We discuss what it is, why it’s needed, what Biden’s particular version of it looks like, and how it could evolve if he wins a second term. (PDF transcript)(Active transcript)David RobertsIn case you hadn't heard, neoliberalism is out. Industrial policy — focused government action and investment meant to shape the economy — is in.
-
Nov 21, 2023 | 
rooseveltinstitute.org | Kristina Karlsson |Lauren Melodia |Todd Tucker |Niko Lusiani
“Government investment in a rapid transition to electrified, renewable energy is crucial infrastructure for future energy price stability, but building renewable energy will not be enough to eliminate price volatility related to energy prices without a simultaneous divestment from the use and production of fossil fuels.” IntroductionOver the last two years, fossil fuel and energy prices contributed to a 40-year high in inflation in the United States.
