Here's a thread outlining what I see as the main points both sides are trying to make. threadreaderapp.com/thread/18363...
Over at Democracy Journal, Liz Pancotti and I have a debate with @mattyglesias.bsky.socialdemocracyjournal.org/magazine/74/...
Are tariffs an effective tool to shape markets—or a regressive tax whose goals can be achieved via others means? A debate.
At that phase of the historiography of neoliberalism where it's fashionable to question whether it even existed. Pieces like this argue that, at a minimum, it had powerful paradigmatic pull across the spectrum and unleashed destabilizing inequality. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/0...
This splendid new account of the 40th president’s life shows that Reagan’s influence doesn’t loom so large 35 years after he left the White House
Excellent deep dive into the economics of managing electricity demand for mobile industries like data centers, which estimates suggest create less than one job per megawatt, compared to 25 jobs per megawatt for traditional manufacturing factories. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
An Ohio power company is trying to make major tech companies pay more of the costs of upgrading the electric grid to accommodate power-hungry data centers.
"Both US Steel & Nippon Steel have been slow, compared to industry peers, to adopt the most impactful decarbonization technologies, even with federal funding available in the US to do so" @mehta_gautama on merger's climate implications, w/ @ykwon88 and me grist.org/cities/us-st...
It’s already possible to produce steel in a more climate-friendly way, but neither U.S. Steel nor Nippon Steel seems ready to adapt.
Fascinating!
Would love to hear more about this (from behind the paywall)
In all, last night's debate offered further evidence that a Harris administration would preserve and build on the economic legacy established during the Biden-Harris years, as John Cassidy, Felicia Wong and others have argued. END. www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...
How the Vice-President’s economic approach might build upon, and differ from, that of her predecessor.
Moreover, Harris spent more time discussing industrial and economic resilience issues than Trump did.
While there's been a fair amount of commentary that Harris should drop Biden's economic strategy of public investment backstopped by tariffs, worker empowerment, and competition, it's worth noting that Harris emphasized these themes more than Biden did in his debate performance.
