2022-06-23
“A year ago, the Europeans didn't have a semiconductor incentive program in place,” but Germany is now rolling out subsidies for an Intel manufacturing site. “When the German bureaucracy moves faster than the American legislative process, that's not a good sign.” - @MarkWarner.
Washington Post
The Senate's $52B US chip production bill, passed in June 2021, has been bogged down over unrelated disputes, like climate provisions, delaying the funds
Proponents are racing to salvage a bipartisan measure that would provide $52 billion for domestic chip production
2021-09-23
This is excellent news. I have learned so much from @STOmarova about how financial institutions - public, private, and in-between - can be leveraged to tackle big challenges like decarbonization, inequality, and more. https://twitter.com/...
Bloomberg
Sources: Biden plans to nominate Cornell law professor and cryptocurrency critic Saule Omarova to run the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
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2021-08-31
Price caps! “We really have an imperative to protect independent restaurants from the exploitive and predatory practices of third-party food delivery apps that seek to extract wealth from our local economy,” said San Francisco supervisor Aaron Peskin. https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
New York and San Francisco are moving to make commission caps for delivery platforms permanent; NYC voted to approve a 23% cap, below the 30% usually charged
Dave Lee / Financial Times : Tweets: @toddntucker Tweets: Todd N. Tucker / @toddntucker : Price caps! “We really have an imperative to protect independent restaurants from the exp...
2021-06-09
The Biden administration has just released its 100 day supply chain review. What's in it? Thread. https://www.whitehouse.gov/...
CNBC
Biden admin announces steps to bolster US supply chains, including for chips and rare earth metals, and a “strike force” to combat unfair trade practices
- The Biden administration announces new actions designed to strengthen critical U.S. supply chains. Source: The White House .
2020-03-03
“Sanders and Warren have each received roughly one-third of all donations from workers at Facebook, Twitter, Google, Amazon, Tesla, Netflix, Uber and Apple” compared to 26% for Buttigieg, 8 per cent for Joe Biden and 2 per cent for Amy Klobuchar. https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
Analysis: one-third of donations from employees at big tech firms went to Sens. Warren and Sanders, despite a lack of enthusiasm from tech executives
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2020-03-02
“Sanders and Warren have each received roughly one-third of all donations from workers at Facebook, Twitter, Google, Amazon, Tesla, Netflix, Uber and Apple” compared to 26% for Buttigieg, 8 per cent for Joe Biden and 2 per cent for Amy Klobuchar. https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
Analysis: one-third of donations from employees at big tech firms went to Sens. Warren and Sanders, despite a lack of enthusiasm from tech executives
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