Joel Dodge
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Joel Dodge
@joeldodge07
Industrial Policy & Economic Security at Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator. Views are my own.
New York Katılım Ocak 2012
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Re-upping my @heatmap_news piece w/ @narayansub from last year on the milestone alternative energy legislation Congress passed after the ‘70s oil shocks.
Largely forgotten and barely tried (spoiler: Reagan killed it), it may hold some lessons & inspo in our…current predicament
Joel Dodge@joeldodge07
Wrote for @heatmap_news with @narayansub about a largely forgotten effort at American energy industrial policy—the Energy Security Act of 1980—and the lessons it holds for new efforts today:
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Democrats should simply announce in unison that they will claw back any $ paid out to J6 terrorists if they retake the White House in 2029, including through potentially personally-bankrupting federal lawsuits
(Cc @brianbeutler)
Axios@axios
The top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee is introducing legislation that would block Trump's $1.8 billion fund to pay people who say they were the targets of politically motivated prosecutions. axios.com/2026/05/20/dem…
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I have a forthcoming piece unpacking deal structures, and they are all over the place. If the US is going to be an investor, it should do what other countries do: set up a sovereign wealth fund or national development bank, and have a clear strategy and guardrails.
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Sharp piece from @joeldodge07 making the case for public factories to respond to monopoly power. When a few firms control production, supply gets squeezed, prices rise, and markets cannot correct themselves. But building out public industrial capacity can.
washingtonmonthly.com/2026/05/18/pub…
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Modern industrial policy often employs tariffs or subsidies to incentivize private companies to fill production gaps.
But @joeldodge07 and @GaneshSitaraman argue in ProMarket that the U.S. should revive a forgotten tool: the public factory.
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And in the second, I make the case for public factories for critical energy components — specifically next-generation batteries and electrical transformers: cdn.vanderbilt.edu/vu-URL/wp-cont…
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The first, coauthored by me and @GaneshSitaraman, makes the general case for public factories by exploring their history, theory & design, and future: cdn.vanderbilt.edu/vu-URL/wp-cont…
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In a new piece for @monthly, I explain how this agenda plank from @RepCasar & @USProgressives revives a long American tradition of DIY progressivism that uses public factories to counter monopoly power in order to promote affordability:
Congressman Greg Casar@RepCasar
We make your prescription drugs cheaper by saying if companies won’t make prescription drugs affordable, we’ll just make them ourselves. A vial of insulin goes from $300 a vial to $50. That's a bill from @janschakowsky and @SenWarren.
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Not included in this important NOTUS story, Trump “truthed” support for Palantir in early April—and even included the stock ticker symbol—right after he purchased a ton of Palantir shares in March.
Shares jumped about 3% within minutes of the post.
Samuel Larreal@samuellarreal_
NEW: President Donald Trump bought and sold millions of dollars worth of stock in tech companies and government contractors including Nvidia and Palantir. Some of those trades overlapped with regulatory decisions that were favorable to these companies. notus.org/money/donald-t…
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Shapiro calls for utilities to use public financing, which can be much cheaper than what utilities usually seek, to reduce the cost of building infrastructure for the grid.
Stephen Caruso@StephenJ_Caruso
Per four sources, Gov. Josh Shapiro sent a letter to an unknown number of "utility leaders" yesterday asking for more cost-effective financing and more transparency when requesting rate hikes. His office does not exercise control over rates but does hold a vast bully pulpit.
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We make your prescription drugs cheaper by saying if companies won’t make prescription drugs affordable, we’ll just make them ourselves.
A vial of insulin goes from $300 a vial to $50.
That's a bill from @janschakowsky and @SenWarren.
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@noah_gordon_ interesting - what kinds of "pressure" or concessions for market access do you have in mind?
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BYD profits got cut in half by cutthroat local competition.
Now is the time to put pressure on Chinese carmakers who want to sell to the world. In five years there might not be dozens of Chinese EV firms, but rather a few national champions too strong for compromise.
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The administration could use the Defense Production Act to create government-owned factories to increase the supply of transformers, their key inputs, and other critical energy components, as I proposed in a recent white paper: cdn.vanderbilt.edu/vu-URL/wp-cont…
Winston@ChurchillWw
The US classified power transformers, switchgear, cables and substations as essential to national defense on April 20 under Section 303 of the Defense Production Act. The classification matters because the country imports 82% of its large power transformers, with lead times of 2 to 4 years, while 7 GW of generation projects are stalled awaiting grid connection. Three transformer factories are under construction in Texas, Alabama and Georgia, and Section 303 now authorizes DOE to make direct purchases and financial commitments to expand domestic production. whitehouse.gov/presidential-a…
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“Murmurs of possible tactics abound—including more talk within the administration of the DPA after Anthropic’s Mythos announcement, one person with knowledge of such discussions told us.”
Lila@LilaShroff
Ever since the Pentagon-Anthropic drama, talk of AI nationalization has been growing. But what would this actually look like in practice? We spoke to a dozen former Pentagon and Trump administration officials, AI-policy experts, and legal scholars. Here's what they told us:
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@TheStalwart @DanielYergin @tracyalloway Great convo. Would be interesting to get fossil & renewable energy executives on Odd Lots to discuss how their companies plan for and navigate the now routine “180 degree swings” in federal policy every 4-8 years that Daniel raised.
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NEW ODD LOTS:
It's @DanielYergin
@tracyalloway and I talk to the Pulitzer Prize winning author about why he sees a "different world" emerging in the wake of the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dan…
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