A preview of last night’s 60 Minutes profile of Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.
The complete segment can be seen here:
Will Intel use its $8.5 billion from the Chips and Science Act to do anything more than cover the company’s $7 billion loss in chip fabrication?
I’ve become cynical about government industrial policy. The reason why is the risk of picking winners — and losers — in a targeted market. Which happened with the HITECH Act of 2009 and hospital information system software. Epic Systems was the big winner, with its database vendor, Intersystems, also benefiting.