For those who don’t see it. This kills small producers that produce in the US for the world. No matter if you import parts, resources or full built products. You have to move now outside the states or you are no longer competitive selling globally
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IRA and Chip Act: US Manufacturing Policy Reassessment
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They basically disadvantaged the US as manufacturer for the world. Front to back the whole thing makes no sense. In hindsight the IRA and chip act stuff seemed way more sensible to relocate manufacturing to the states.
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Smartphone Electronics Exemptions Undermine US Manufacturing Policy
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Of course they’re now exempting smartphones and electronics. They couldn’t even build an LED screen factory in Wisconsin after making a big photo opp out of it in 2017.
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Trade Wars Impact Chinese Manufacturing Global Expansion Irony
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The irony is there’s a high likelihood those products will be produced by Chinese owned factories that expanded all over the world as a result of the last time he started a trade war.
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Jack Ma disappearance: Tech leadership under state control
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Example. This old video of Jack Ma is making the rounds and it’s worth listening to again.
— 🖤 Christine (@christinelu) 12 avril 2025
But don’t forget the part where the Chinese government disappeared him for a few years and he now only resurfaces in the public when Beijing says to. pic.twitter.com/Z7Dh0W2n3nExample. This old video of Jack Ma is making the rounds and it’s worth listening to again. But don’t forget the part where the Chinese government disappeared him for a few years and he now only resurfaces in the public when Beijing says to.
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Engineering expertise transfers to policy circles lacking technical understanding
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A forthcoming Complex Systems episode includes a thematically similar export of ideas from an engineering-heavy community to policy circles, which find themselves nearly bereft of anyone who can explain and understand technology to a degree appropriate to its importance.
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Binance Compliance Officers and Cryptocurrency Regulatory Risk Tolerance
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(Binance of course had Compliance officers but their job was not complying, and they knew it, and they wrote down some really excellent quotes. On-shore crypto players… well, they have a risk tolerance, but it was truly less than that.)
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Crypto lobbying aims for minimal regulatory oversight and maximum freedom
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c.f. https://
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… and the broader lobbying push generally, whose aim is not to get crypto clarity but to craft a regime where it gets to do basically whatever it wants with a minimum of throat clearing and tugs of the cap -
Binance regulatory scrutiny and crypto compliance debate
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Binance was nominated as the sin-eater by the onshore crypto advocates, distinguished from their own “We have Compliance departments and just seek regulatory clarity” ways, and it will be interesting to see whether they go along with “actually, you know, they never did wrong.”