The message from the Left should be: tariffs bad, industrial policy good.
Sure, there are niche cases where tariffs might be useful as part of industrial policy, but it really weakens the message to add qualifiers. Fight unreservedly against the thing destroying the economy.
Sure, there are niche cases where tariffs might be useful as part of industrial policy, but it really weakens the message to add qualifiers. Fight unreservedly against the thing destroying the economy.
April 9, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The message from the Left should be: tariffs bad, industrial policy good.
Sure, there are niche cases where tariffs might be useful as part of industrial policy, but it really weakens the message to add qualifiers. Fight unreservedly against the thing destroying the economy.
Sure, there are niche cases where tariffs might be useful as part of industrial policy, but it really weakens the message to add qualifiers. Fight unreservedly against the thing destroying the economy.
they're calling it the first recorded case of de-industrial policy
July 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
they're calling it the first recorded case of de-industrial policy
"US immigration enforcement has evolved into a rapidly growing multi-billion-dollar industry in which profitability increasingly dictates policy and enforcement priorities."
By: @tylermcbrien.com
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By: @tylermcbrien.com
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The US Immigration Industrial Complex is a Threat to Everyone
If President Dwight D. Eisenhower were alive today, he very well may warn of the ever-growing immigration industrial complex.
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February 24, 2026 at 11:07 AM
"US immigration enforcement has evolved into a rapidly growing multi-billion-dollar industry in which profitability increasingly dictates policy and enforcement priorities."
By: @tylermcbrien.com
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By: @tylermcbrien.com
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one thing i particularly enjoyed in this conversation: everyone now seems to be converging on "we should do industrial policy." but "industrial policy" is not a monolith; it is a tradition full of failed experiments. what does it take to do *effective* industrial policy in the 21st century?
Today @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com talks to Rey Fuentes of @rooseveltinstitute.org about the Good Life Agenda, one competitor in the "ideas primary" of our times www.liberalcurrents.com/governance-a...
Governance After Neoliberalism, with Rey Fuentes
Samantha Hancox-Li and guest Rey Fuentes, Director at the Roosevelt Institute, discuss the Democratic "ideas primary." Roosevelt's new "Good Life Agenda," a package of governing tools and policy propo...
www.liberalcurrents.com
June 15, 2026 at 9:41 PM
one thing i particularly enjoyed in this conversation: everyone now seems to be converging on "we should do industrial policy." but "industrial policy" is not a monolith; it is a tradition full of failed experiments. what does it take to do *effective* industrial policy in the 21st century?
I talked trade with Chad Bown tradetalkspodcast.com/podcast/206-...
206. Paul Krugman talks trade, industrial policy, and Trump
The Nobel Laureate joins for a wide-ranging conversation about historical lessons and new thinking on trade, industrial policy, as well as President Trump.
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March 17, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I talked trade with Chad Bown tradetalkspodcast.com/podcast/206-...
Good news for my goal of writing an industrial policy book set in Star Trek.
May 17, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Good news for my goal of writing an industrial policy book set in Star Trek.
I think people reeeeealllly overestimate the role of trade and industrial policy in US dominance of heavy industry in the 1950s and really underestimate the importance of having dropped high explosives on every facility in Japan or Germany capable of manufacturing a ball bearing
April 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I think people reeeeealllly overestimate the role of trade and industrial policy in US dominance of heavy industry in the 1950s and really underestimate the importance of having dropped high explosives on every facility in Japan or Germany capable of manufacturing a ball bearing
beginnings of a recognition of the scale of the catastrophe they've created for their own core policy of reshoring industrial factories. still deputy secy of state mcrandoson probably wont cut it.
US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau expressed regret on Sunday over the recent detention of hundreds of South Korean workers in Georgia and said those who returned home will face no disadvantage when re-entering the US
US Official Offers Regrets Over Detention of South Koreans
US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau on Sunday expressed regret over the recent detention of hundreds of South Korean workers in Georgia.
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September 14, 2025 at 6:57 PM
beginnings of a recognition of the scale of the catastrophe they've created for their own core policy of reshoring industrial factories. still deputy secy of state mcrandoson probably wont cut it.
A tariff that expires in 150 days isn’t a long-run industrial policy. Firms invest on multi-year horizons. If the policy is temporary, the investment response will be, too: mostly none.
(This was recorded when the tariff rate was 10%; it's now 15%.)
(This was recorded when the tariff rate was 10%; it's now 15%.)
February 23, 2026 at 12:52 PM
A tariff that expires in 150 days isn’t a long-run industrial policy. Firms invest on multi-year horizons. If the policy is temporary, the investment response will be, too: mostly none.
(This was recorded when the tariff rate was 10%; it's now 15%.)
(This was recorded when the tariff rate was 10%; it's now 15%.)
I feel like the fact that America used to have an EV national champion whose CEO destroyed the company and committed huge sums of his wealth to support the destruction of US green industrial policy raises a lot of weird and difficult questions about green industrial policy
September 25, 2026 at 10:07 PM
I feel like the fact that America used to have an EV national champion whose CEO destroyed the company and committed huge sums of his wealth to support the destruction of US green industrial policy raises a lot of weird and difficult questions about green industrial policy
Biden built an industrial policy. It was working. We were on a comeback.
This Republican budget bill - which destroys the clean energy industry in the U.S. - is a choice to surrender to China.
This Republican budget bill - which destroys the clean energy industry in the U.S. - is a choice to surrender to China.
July 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Biden built an industrial policy. It was working. We were on a comeback.
This Republican budget bill - which destroys the clean energy industry in the U.S. - is a choice to surrender to China.
This Republican budget bill - which destroys the clean energy industry in the U.S. - is a choice to surrender to China.
We need industrial policy to make more RAM.
March 15, 2026 at 5:13 PM
We need industrial policy to make more RAM.
The industrial policy that helped spawn the world's biggest semiconductor manufacturer traces directly back to the New Deal's Tennessee Valley Authority
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asteriskmag.com/issues/13/th...
March 18, 2026 at 10:04 PM
The industrial policy that helped spawn the world's biggest semiconductor manufacturer traces directly back to the New Deal's Tennessee Valley Authority
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asteriskmag.com/issues/13/th...
You cannot simultaneously do “industrial policy” while gutting state capacity.
April 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
You cannot simultaneously do “industrial policy” while gutting state capacity.
Industrial policy works. It doesn't work immediately... but it works.
Wow
SEIA is claiming after record Q3 growth US solar manufacturers can meet all US demand 🤯
SEIA is claiming after record Q3 growth US solar manufacturers can meet all US demand 🤯
December 4, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Industrial policy works. It doesn't work immediately... but it works.
feel like these guys just got taken by the MAGA vibes on Vichy Twitter that climate policy is woke and gay rather than regular ass industrial policy in a 21st century context
July 19, 2025 at 8:26 PM
feel like these guys just got taken by the MAGA vibes on Vichy Twitter that climate policy is woke and gay rather than regular ass industrial policy in a 21st century context
I can: I see the Biden industrial policy as in line with abundance, because it engaged in industrial policy that actually resulted in an increase in productive capacities.
In housing, land use restrictions are the biggest obstacle, but when they're out of the way we SHOULD subsidize to catch up
In housing, land use restrictions are the biggest obstacle, but when they're out of the way we SHOULD subsidize to catch up
March 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I can: I see the Biden industrial policy as in line with abundance, because it engaged in industrial policy that actually resulted in an increase in productive capacities.
In housing, land use restrictions are the biggest obstacle, but when they're out of the way we SHOULD subsidize to catch up
In housing, land use restrictions are the biggest obstacle, but when they're out of the way we SHOULD subsidize to catch up
yeah you can see this even in biden's messaging on his various industrial policies: they're billed as creating jobs, not creating stuff
any realistic industrial policy will never be a jobs policy! it's a stuff policy!
/rant
any realistic industrial policy will never be a jobs policy! it's a stuff policy!
/rant
March 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
yeah you can see this even in biden's messaging on his various industrial policies: they're billed as creating jobs, not creating stuff
any realistic industrial policy will never be a jobs policy! it's a stuff policy!
/rant
any realistic industrial policy will never be a jobs policy! it's a stuff policy!
/rant
Ok serious question for industrial policy/legal Bluesky:
Pros/cons/pitfalls of just nationalizing it?
Pros/cons/pitfalls of just nationalizing it?
It certainly sounds like this pro-Trump American CEO of a company that owns a Canadian steel plant is intentionally idling production and laying off Canadian workers in order to support the trade war www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
Stelco's U.S. owner touts right to idle operations at Hamilton steel plant as PM vows legal action | CBC News
The chief executive officer of Stelco’s American parent company says he has every legal right to idle production at a steel mill in Hamilton, Ont., as Prime Minister Mark Carney threatens legal action...
www.cbc.ca
October 1, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Ok serious question for industrial policy/legal Bluesky:
Pros/cons/pitfalls of just nationalizing it?
Pros/cons/pitfalls of just nationalizing it?
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Our new article is out in Globalizations: Toward a post-growth industrial policy for Europe: navigating emerging tensions and long-term goals.
With @jasonhickel.bsky.social & @sebmang.bsky.social
@envleeds.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Our new article is out in Globalizations: Toward a post-growth industrial policy for Europe: navigating emerging tensions and long-term goals.
With @jasonhickel.bsky.social & @sebmang.bsky.social
@envleeds.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Toward a post-growth industrial policy for Europe: navigating emerging tensions and long-term goals
Amid mounting geopolitical, socio-economic, and ecological crises, industrial policy has returned to the forefront of policy debates. However, the EU’s industrial policy framework – centerd on Sing...
www.tandfonline.com
May 14, 2025 at 5:58 AM
1/7
Our new article is out in Globalizations: Toward a post-growth industrial policy for Europe: navigating emerging tensions and long-term goals.
With @jasonhickel.bsky.social & @sebmang.bsky.social
@envleeds.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Our new article is out in Globalizations: Toward a post-growth industrial policy for Europe: navigating emerging tensions and long-term goals.
With @jasonhickel.bsky.social & @sebmang.bsky.social
@envleeds.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The belief in a non-existent "censorship industrial complex" now shapes American foreign policy.
A brilliant deep dive from the MIT Technology Review
www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/07/1...
A brilliant deep dive from the MIT Technology Review
www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/07/1...
How ideas of a vast censorship network moved from the online fringe to Trump policy
Narratives about a “censorship-industrial complex” spread in right-wing circles for years; then they took hold of Washington. What—and who—is behind them?
www.technologyreview.com
August 8, 2026 at 11:58 AM
The belief in a non-existent "censorship industrial complex" now shapes American foreign policy.
A brilliant deep dive from the MIT Technology Review
www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/07/1...
A brilliant deep dive from the MIT Technology Review
www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/07/1...
Some national leaders practice industrial policy; Trump practices anti-industrial policy
Trump announces he will sharply scale back fuel-efficiency rules for new cars and light trucks, gutting one of the government’s most significant efforts to reduce gasoline consumption and speed the country’s shift to electric vehicles.
September 27, 2026 at 1:18 AM
Some national leaders practice industrial policy; Trump practices anti-industrial policy
Rolling back clean energy policies to “save” European industry will backfire. It may seem attractive in the short term, but it’s poor industrial policy in the long run.
Standing still on climate policy undermines competitiveness. Industry needs stability and long-term direction, not uncertainty.
Standing still on climate policy undermines competitiveness. Industry needs stability and long-term direction, not uncertainty.
October 28, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Rolling back clean energy policies to “save” European industry will backfire. It may seem attractive in the short term, but it’s poor industrial policy in the long run.
Standing still on climate policy undermines competitiveness. Industry needs stability and long-term direction, not uncertainty.
Standing still on climate policy undermines competitiveness. Industry needs stability and long-term direction, not uncertainty.
Trump’s "state capitalism" has nothing whatever to do with public ownership, socialism, helping the working class, or improving national security.
There is no real industrial policy.
It’s all about centralizing ever more control over America in the Oval Office.
There is no real industrial policy.
It’s all about centralizing ever more control over America in the Oval Office.
August 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Trump’s "state capitalism" has nothing whatever to do with public ownership, socialism, helping the working class, or improving national security.
There is no real industrial policy.
It’s all about centralizing ever more control over America in the Oval Office.
There is no real industrial policy.
It’s all about centralizing ever more control over America in the Oval Office.
Cosmic Crisp is basically Washington State industrial policy
September 23, 2026 at 4:55 AM
Cosmic Crisp is basically Washington State industrial policy