Publications

The Trump administration will have to make a choice: Demand the removal of all foreign trade barriers or be strategic and focus on eliminating those critical to America’s techno-economic future.

The Canadian economy is shifting faster than its institutions are. This playbook lays out an agenda to address what Canada must fix, build, and scale in order to compete through technology

Chinese platforms like Temu, SHEIN, and AliExpress continue to list unsafe products even after U.S. safety warnings, revealing serious gaps in enforcement. The Consumer Product Safety Commission needs stronger authority, better platform cooperation, and AI-driven tools to protect consumers.

South Korea faces a strategic decision: Address persistent trade asymmetries, or risk straining its long-standing alliance with the United States and lose autonomy vis-à-vis China. What’s needed is a genuine reset—one grounded in open trade and closer coordination with Washington to counter mercantilist practices.

A study by the Federal Reserve Board shows that despite significantly increased costs for higher education and housing, average household income for Millennials grew 18 percent compared to Generation X.

Standard large nuclear reactors won’t achieve scale or cost competitiveness with alternative energy sources. DOE should focus its resources on small modular reactors, which are a more promising technology with the potential to achieve price and performance parity.

In this special episode of the Trade War Podcast from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, host Stan McCoy recontextualizes a 1947 speech by President Harry Truman in interview format.

How I learned to stop worrying and love the AI revolution.

Xi Jinping's accelerated timeline to dominate global tech-based industries appears to be a strategic miscalculation. The coming years will reveal whether China can adapt its approach or suffer the consequences of this high-stakes gamble.

The lurch from naïve free trade to self-defeating trade wars makes it appear that there is no place in between. But this is not the case.