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New research shows that renewable power like solar and wind is now affordable enough to shut down the debate over cost.

Under an obscure program, state and local authorities got to pick construction firms for Rivian and Hyundai plants. They chose non-union firms that have contributed heavily to Republicans.

Today on TAP: In the first GOP debate, the treatment the crowd gave Trump’s critics made that vociferously clear.

Could an Amtrak partnership get a real high-speed rail line built between Dallas and Houston?

In advance of his Jackson Hole speech, the Fed chair has neglected his role of ensuring the safety and soundness of banks with substantial fossil fuel assets.

Today on TAP: A valuable lesson for the industrial policy of the future

How the industry is positioned to shape the debate over U.S. industrial policy, and generally lobby for its interests, from within the ‘congressional watchdog’ agency

A ruling in Illinois from a Democratic-approved judge would invalidate the Equal Credit Opportunity Act in actions taken before the application stage.

General Motors and Ford are clients of Anderson Economic Group, which released a study about a potential strike’s cost to ‘the economy.’

Today on TAP: The state’s labor department ordered 27 Boston Market outlets to stop work after they violated minimum-wage laws.

The unions raised the need for antitrust enforcement, and the Biden administration’s top antitrust cops paid attention.

A COVID-driven recession with temporary inflation is now followed by a strong recovery that follows no standard models.

Unionizing is not against the law; but the law is against unionizing.

Today on TAP: The White House executive order on export controls is mostly window dressing—and there is already pressure to water it down.

The Big Three’s transition to electric vehicles will largely be driven by public investment. That doesn’t guarantee there will be good-paying jobs.

Longtime GOP trade rep Robert Zoellick accuses Biden of failing to embrace the economic errors of Clinton and Obama.

U.S. colonialism and rentier capitalism are wreaking havoc on Puerto Rico.

Today on TAP: Wall Street’s hilarious complaint against a totally captured self-regulatory agency has one thing right: This delegation of government authority is unconstitutional.

Reflections on a week in the age of corporate power

Amid an ongoing Department of Justice inquiry, the Texas-based real estate tech company RealPage is prized for its analysis in mainstream media.