SENIOR ECONOMIST
Mihir Torsekar is a Senior Economist at the Coalition for a Prosperous America.
Founded in Benton Harbor, Michigan, in 1911, Whirlpool has spent more than a century building appliances on American soil while its competitors either left for cheaper production overseas or were sold outright to foreign buyers.
The race to commercialize nuclear fusion will define the next era of geopolitical power. By one estimate, a single glass of fusion fuel carries the energy equivalent of one million gallons of oil, enough to power a home for more than 800 years.
A recent 60 Minutes segment gave the Cato Institute a platform to argue that America’s shipbuilding crisis proves protectionist industrial policy has failed. The opposite is true: the crisis is the product of four decades without an industrial policy.
A new Federal Reserve FEDS Note finds a systematic link between Chinese industrial policy interventions and export growth. The 15 most policy-targeted sectors accounted for 76% of the increase in China’s aggregate trade surplus from 2017 to 2024.
