The weekly trade report with correspondent L.C. After berating Japan for “it” in the 1980s and China for “it” during the past decade, Congress and the White House have decided to join the party of sinners — “it” being industrial policy. This is a really sexy new idea — only four centuries old. In the […]
Lighthizer calls for US industrial policy
The weekly trade report by L.C. Addressing the Economic Club of New York on June 4th, US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer declared: “After the [pandemic] crisis is over, we have to have an industrial policy that assures the US has in any future crisis the ability to manufacture at home all the things that we […]
Industrial policy’s strange bedfellows
by Richard Schulman “National Conservatism” (NC) has sometimes been characterized as an attempt to fashion a coherent political theory and program out of President Trump’s unpredictable policy-making. Its spokesmen include Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson and the City Journal‘s Oren Cass. They are calling for a national industrial policy as a fulfillment of National Conservatism’s […]
