A report finds that corporate consolidation, an aging workforce, and high costs could keep heat pumps, a key technology of the Inflation Reduction Act, out of reach.

The effort to counter China’s ‘malign influence’ would fund negative coverage of China’s Belt and Road Initiative—while also beefing up the U.S.’s international lending.

Nancy Pelosi’s office is blocking Social Security expansion, while Congress prepares to pass a windfall for rich retirees, insurance companies, and large asset managers like Vanguard and Fidelity.

Banned for a century, contract labor could return to New York’s prisons.

The Department of Labor plans to reverse the neoliberal-era gutting of a law that stopped contractors from bidding down wages in federal procurement.

Intel and Micron set to cut capital spending by billions of dollars despite Washington passing law to boost production

Industry criticism of OCC pick Saule Omarova for wanting to end private banking masks their real fear of losing their derivatives businesses.

Unions are fighting to ensure solar workers are skilled tradesmen, not just exploited temps.

Billions in public financing would keep investment flowing into energy sector despite interest rate hikes.

Democrats’ new industrial manufacturing plan leaves unions behind, fumbling a moment of relative leverage for organized labor.

The union has secured that workers at General Motors’ joint-venture battery plants will be covered under the Big Three master agreement. It’s a major step in a just transition.

The Inflation Reduction Act will spur the takeover of our infrastructure by private entities, particularly large global asset managers, with likely negative consequences.

The Biden administration is promoting a new liquefied natural gas complex on the Pacific Coast, with expanded subsidies from the bipartisan infrastructure bill and Inflation Reduction Act.

Government and the private sector rely increasingly on risk-modeling firms that claim they can zero in on exposure to climate change.

The chipmaking giant, which expects to receive up to $15 billion in federal tax credits and grants for its Arizona facility, says U.S. workers are not up to the job.

After details emerged of an affair with a staffer, members of Congress want more answers from the Trumpian head of the Organization of American States.

Mexico pledged to ban geoengineering after Make Sunsets' attempt last year. The company just launched more balloons—this time in the U.S.

TSMC’s $40 billion semiconductor facility in Phoenix, an open shop that resisted signing an agreement with labor unions, has been tainted with accidents, alleged wage theft, and costly setbacks.

With a mission to create green jobs and bring green-energy loans to the poor, BlocPower has gained powerful backers in tech, finance, and government. Where are the results?

A report finds that corporate consolidation, an aging workforce, and high costs could keep heat pumps, a key technology of the Inflation Reduction Act, out of reach.

Labor groups fear offshore wind could go the same way as solar: low wages and temp workers.

The econ blogosphere hasn’t really checked, but knows in its heart American workers aren’t up to the job.

Questioning one’s views as circumstances evolve can be a good thing

How an ex-banker teamed up with Barbados’s prime minister to fix a lopsided global financial system.

The Democratic economist is deeply implicated in building the system at the heart of our current predicament and setting up our economy for failure.

The building trades just won a surprise victory through the city council. But despite the hot labor market, securing manufacturing jobs is an uphill battle for organized labor.

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Bombs, guns and fighter jets aren’t typical E.S.G. investments, but two Citi analysts say they should be. Advocates for “socially responsible” investing call the idea “absurd.”

Also in today’s newsletter, exploring the debate around green interest rates

Private equity has become a group of self-dealing oligarchs, as I write my last regular column for the FT

Today’s CEOs are essentially carnival barkers, induced to yell louder by a corroded business culture.

Bailed-out major airlines have outsourced ground work to subcontractors. Injuries and fatalities on the tarmac are taking off.

The Department of Labor plans to reverse the neoliberal-era gutting of a law that stopped contractors from bidding down wages in federal procurement.

Government and the private sector rely increasingly on risk-modeling firms that claim they can zero in on exposure to climate change.

Oil made Texas an energy giant, but even this petroleum powerhouse is working hard to secure a footing beyond fossil fuels. It already generates more wind energy than any other U.S. state, and soon...

An updated document from the Office of Management and Budget will make it easier to enact regulations.

‘We sure as hell don’t owe Joe Manchin anything now,’ says one Democrat.

A podcast episode for anyone addicted to Tradle.

Goodbye for now to Tucker Carlson, who punctured the lazy pieties of the media class.

Saule Omarova, whose nomination is in trouble partly due to progressives’ botched defense, could be appointed as first deputy and run the OCC in an acting capacity.

A new book argues that the low cost of green energy is not always an asset

Propaganda that was supposed to target foreigners could now be aimed at Americans, reversing a longstanding policy. "Disconcerting and dangerous," says Shank.

Rupert Russell’s new book shows how the financialization of commodity prices worsens volatility and destabilizes geopolitics. It couldn’t be more timely.

As the Biden administration works to revive industrial policy in the U.S., our new Industrial Policy Series will address poorly-understood competition concerns that could undermine successful...

Victory was part of a $40mn campaign to organise workers at 13 mostly foreign-owned carmakers across the US

Tech giants show growing interest in atomic power

TOKYO—Despite his hopes to retire permanently after the release of this year’s The Boy And The Heron, beloved Studio Ghibli director Hayao Miyazaki announced his return to filmmaking Wednesday,...

Natural resources are quite different from the capital stock created out of human effort

After 50 union electricians left, TSMC reinstated incentive pay and offered 25 non-union workers dispatched from Taiwan.

‘There was a fear that I might be open to thinking systemically,’ says the Cornell Law professor who drew fierce opposition from the bank lobby.

A Clinton-era hydrogen company, Plug Power, fights to embed its business model in the tax code.

NYPA could capitalize on billions of dollars in the federal Inflation Reduction Act and help New York meet its renewable energy targets if the legislature acts on Hochul’s proposal, the governor said.

During his fourteen year tenure, President Robert Zimmer and his administration have transformed the University of Chicago.