“The economics profession has let down the American people.” - Jeff Ferry
In this conversation, I discuss policy solutions for rebuilding American industry with
Jeff Ferry. We discuss the impacts tariffs on China have had on the U.S. economy, whether those tariffs should be made permanent, whether the White House should use tariffs as bargaining leverage with China, the fate of third countries in U.S.-China decoupling, Taiwan and its dominance in the semiconductor industry, the transition from ‘just-in-time’ to ‘just-in-case’ supply chain design, solutions for breaking through the short-termism that is endemic to Silicon Valley and D.C., the politicization of the economics profession, the future of global manufacturing and trade policy, and many more topics.
You can listen to the episode right away in the audio player embedded above, or right below it you can click “Listen in podcast app” — which will connect you to the show’s feed. Alternatively, you can click the icons below to listen to it on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Jeff Ferry is Chief Economist at the Coalition for a Prosperous America. In 2019, Jeff and his colleague Steve Buyers won the Mennis Award from the National Association for Business Economics for their paper,
Decoupling from China: an economic analysis of the impact on the U.S. economy of a permanent tariff on Chinese imports. Before moving into the policy world in D.C., Jeff worked for 15 years in Silicon Valley as a tech executive and has intimate knowledge of the semiconductor industry in particular. His writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Miami Herald, Forbes Magazine, and Bloomberg News, Business Age, European Business, and the London Sunday Times. You can discover the work of his tank at
prosperousamerica.org, connect with Jeff on
LinkedIn, or follow him on Twitter at the handle @
Menloferry.
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