Todd N. Tucker
@toddntucker
Director, Industrial Policy & Trade @RooseveltInst @RooseveltFWD. Political scientist of economic transitions/ administrative states. Fellow @HarvardRTE. PhD.
I was on @NPR Morning Edition with @steveinskeep this morning, talking about the US government's apparent acquisition of a so-called "golden share" in the merged US Steel / Nippon company. Thread on why this matters, and what to look for going forward.🧵 npr.org/2025/06/18/nx-…
On building Abundance for the 99% post-DOGE, from @ewwilkins and HGM: "When the government is unable to visibly respond to people’s discontent and aspirations within the timeframe of an electoral mandate, the legitimacy of democracy itself erodes." thehill.com/opinion/white-…
May's Beyond Neoliberalism conference rounded out a decade of rethinking economics. @kmac @70sBachchan note how 2015 kicked things off w/ big shifts in China, EU, and the US, including in @rooseveltinst's Rewriting the Rules. phenomenalworld.org/analysis/beyon…
Clear eyed call from Laura Taylor-Kale for a September reauthorization of the Defense Production Act, which enabled the historic US investment in MP Materials amidst the rare earths showdown with China. ft.com/content/bbcd5c…
Meet the New Centrist Democrat Copying Zohran Mamdani This is incredible @heycappello
Ladies and gentlemen, the TPP! An exaggeration, but telling the continuity in here between the kinds of things corporate America wanted to see in free trade agreements, and what the US now does through tariff de-escalation agreements. whitehouse.gov/briefings-stat…
I actually think this is real progress. The Commission has (I hope) recognized that it can no longer make do with pretend deals that offer the illusion of progress without resolving the very real underlying problem ... 1/
THE EUROPEAN DELEGATION EXPECTS TO REACH NO SUBSTANTIAL DEALS FROM THE CHINESE MEETING: EUROPEAN OFFICIAL EUROPE HOPES TO MAKE CLEAR WHAT IT WANTS BEIJING TO DO TO FIX UNSUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC RELATIONS AND REBALANCE TIES: EUROPEAN OFFCIAL
Learning from what trade did to workers, this time with AI we should make sure “workers are at the heart of it and not just an afterthought who will bear the costs.” Thanks @RepDeluzio for painting a vision of what a people-first tech agenda should look like.
We hosted @RepDeluzio in conversation with @ewwilkins to discuss how workers need to be at the center of decisions about integrating #AI into the workplace—not an afterthought or collateral damage.
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act has transformed US clean energy policy, gutting EV & solar/wind incentives. But it’s weirder than a straight repeal of the Inflation Reduction Act. Today at @heatmap_news, we have a new summary of the past 20 years of tax credits — in one table
More Degrowth Donald Trump administration memo could strike fatal blow to wind and solar power Heinrich: "The president and Secretary Burgum will then be responsible for raising electricity prices on every state in this country". politico.com/news/2025/07/1…
My guess is that defunding NPR is ultimately going to leave behind a fairly large national media organization that moves further left as it becomes even more reliant on donors.
Here, @PEWilliams_ @jeffhauser & @makosloff model an Abundance-populist synthesis. Hint: it's a lot easier when you root Abundance in the local YIMBYism that inspired it, which the national conversation often distracts from. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/561…
How do you pronounce "dirigisme" in Republican? @KFJ_FP and @christinalu on the GOP's state capitalist turn, w/ @sarahbauerle and me. foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/16/tru… @christinafei
Do Markets Value Fed Independence? An Event Study.
You need state capacity if you're going to build ships. And Trump has been shredding it. "Very few senior officials at the NSC who were hired at the beginning of President Donald Trump's administration remain." reuters.com/world/us/white…
The US government just took an equity stake in MP Materials, the US' largest rare earths producer. I spoke with the @FinancialTimes about what this says about the evolving relationship between state and market in the current industrial policy era. ft.com/content/79b169…
Monopolies gonna monopoly. How do you say Kicking Away the Ladder in Chinese? nytimes.com/2025/07/15/bus…
Today in "Progressive Should Have Gotten There First": Trump has US government take an equity stake in rare earths producers MP Materials. @MattZeitlin has the story, w/ @AlexSJacquez and @ashzforbes. heatmap.news/energy/mp-mate…
Useful public diplomacy and synthesis from @_waleedshahid: "Lost in this polarization is the obvious opportunity: harnessing populism’s electoral resonance to win power, while leveraging abundance’s insights to govern effectively." thenation.com/article/politi…
