Joel Dodge
@joeldodge07.bsky.social
Industrial Policy & Economic Security at Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator (https://www.vanderbilt.edu/vanderbilt-policy-accelerator/). Attorney, Policy Advisor, Writer. Views are my own.
Last week, Jamie Dimon announced JPMorganChase was creating a Trump-aligned $1.5 trillion industrial policy fund.
In a new post for Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator's Substack, I explain the perils of this kind of privatized industrial policy.
vanderbiltpolicyaccelerator.substack.com/p/the-perils...
In a new post for Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator's Substack, I explain the perils of this kind of privatized industrial policy.
vanderbiltpolicyaccelerator.substack.com/p/the-perils...
October 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Last week, Jamie Dimon announced JPMorganChase was creating a Trump-aligned $1.5 trillion industrial policy fund.
In a new post for Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator's Substack, I explain the perils of this kind of privatized industrial policy.
vanderbiltpolicyaccelerator.substack.com/p/the-perils...
In a new post for Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator's Substack, I explain the perils of this kind of privatized industrial policy.
vanderbiltpolicyaccelerator.substack.com/p/the-perils...
But there’s also Path #2: Industrial Policy Checked and Balanced. Congress and the courts ought to play a role in mitigating the dangers and pitfalls of Trump’s approach. 7/8
September 4, 2025 at 12:51 AM
But there’s also Path #2: Industrial Policy Checked and Balanced. Congress and the courts ought to play a role in mitigating the dangers and pitfalls of Trump’s approach. 7/8
Indeed, future Democratic presidents may find a lot to like in the Trump-inflected industrial policy toolkit they inherit. 6/8
September 4, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Indeed, future Democratic presidents may find a lot to like in the Trump-inflected industrial policy toolkit they inherit. 6/8
There are two paths forward:
Path #1: Industrial Policy Unleashed. The path of no resistance, where political inertia will cement Trump’s style of economic dealmaking. 5/8
Path #1: Industrial Policy Unleashed. The path of no resistance, where political inertia will cement Trump’s style of economic dealmaking. 5/8
September 4, 2025 at 12:51 AM
There are two paths forward:
Path #1: Industrial Policy Unleashed. The path of no resistance, where political inertia will cement Trump’s style of economic dealmaking. 5/8
Path #1: Industrial Policy Unleashed. The path of no resistance, where political inertia will cement Trump’s style of economic dealmaking. 5/8
I did a deep dive for the @washingtonmonthly.com taking stock of the emerging Trump II industrial policy and where it might be headed. Link below: 🧵1/8
September 4, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I did a deep dive for the @washingtonmonthly.com taking stock of the emerging Trump II industrial policy and where it might be headed. Link below: 🧵1/8
Really excited to dive into the new @c-hughes.bsky.social book
April 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Really excited to dive into the new @c-hughes.bsky.social book
Featuring @ezraklein.bsky.social @dkthomp.bsky.social @crampell.bsky.social @mattyglesias.bsky.social @lenorepalladino.bsky.social @isabelestevez.bsky.social @mazzucatom.bsky.social @drodrik.bsky.social among others
April 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Wherein I take to the pages of the @washingtonmonthly.com to defend the honor of Everything-Bagel Liberalism
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/04/24/i...
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/04/24/i...
April 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Wherein I take to the pages of the @washingtonmonthly.com to defend the honor of Everything-Bagel Liberalism
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/04/24/i...
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/04/24/i...
China’s trade war aces (via @gideonrachman.bsky.social) www.ft.com/content/2112...
April 14, 2025 at 1:43 PM
China’s trade war aces (via @gideonrachman.bsky.social) www.ft.com/content/2112...
And (one of my) "under-arching" Abundance takes is that, if you believe in the transformational power of AI for drug discovery & medical breakthroughs, it seems like a pretty bad time to be DOGE'ing away basic research that would be the grist for these models!
April 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
And (one of my) "under-arching" Abundance takes is that, if you believe in the transformational power of AI for drug discovery & medical breakthroughs, it seems like a pretty bad time to be DOGE'ing away basic research that would be the grist for these models!
DOJ distancing itself from EPA's actions...an unusual move for government lawyers
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
April 4, 2025 at 6:13 PM
DOJ distancing itself from EPA's actions...an unusual move for government lawyers
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Sounds like yesterday's court hearing over the EPA's attempt to steal from the IRA's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund went rather poorly for the Trump administration:
www.utilitydive.com/news/epa-att...
www.utilitydive.com/news/epa-att...
April 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Sounds like yesterday's court hearing over the EPA's attempt to steal from the IRA's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund went rather poorly for the Trump administration:
www.utilitydive.com/news/epa-att...
www.utilitydive.com/news/epa-att...
An abundance of Abundance
March 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
An abundance of Abundance
Still today, the DPA provides the president with several tools to combat inflation: (6/8)
March 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Still today, the DPA provides the president with several tools to combat inflation: (6/8)
In the early '70s, Nixon begrudgingly deployed (politically motivated) price controls under the DPA to mixed results. Controls fell out of favor thereafter. (5/8)
March 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM
In the early '70s, Nixon begrudgingly deployed (politically motivated) price controls under the DPA to mixed results. Controls fell out of favor thereafter. (5/8)
The DPA originally included price controls, which again succeeded in restraining inflation in 1951 (until a hostile Congress gutted them). (4/8)
March 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The DPA originally included price controls, which again succeeded in restraining inflation in 1951 (until a hostile Congress gutted them). (4/8)
After FDR successfully intervened to control inflation during WW2, the Truman administration sought similar powers to deal with postwar inflation.
In fact, the legislation that became the DPA was originally called "the Economic Stabilization Act." (3/8)
In fact, the legislation that became the DPA was originally called "the Economic Stabilization Act." (3/8)
March 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM
After FDR successfully intervened to control inflation during WW2, the Truman administration sought similar powers to deal with postwar inflation.
In fact, the legislation that became the DPA was originally called "the Economic Stabilization Act." (3/8)
In fact, the legislation that became the DPA was originally called "the Economic Stabilization Act." (3/8)
NEW🗞️: The Defense Production Act sometimes gets narrowly cast as mainly a national security law. But as I show in a Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator paper, the DPA actually has a long history as an anti-inflation law. 🧵(1/8)
March 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM
NEW🗞️: The Defense Production Act sometimes gets narrowly cast as mainly a national security law. But as I show in a Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator paper, the DPA actually has a long history as an anti-inflation law. 🧵(1/8)
Like many of Trump's ploys to claw back or freeze Biden admin funding, this may not hold up in court.
But hopefully Democrats learn the lesson that they really need to find a way to get stuff built faster to avoid this kind of rug-pull in the future.
heatmap.news/electric-veh...
But hopefully Democrats learn the lesson that they really need to find a way to get stuff built faster to avoid this kind of rug-pull in the future.
heatmap.news/electric-veh...
February 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Like many of Trump's ploys to claw back or freeze Biden admin funding, this may not hold up in court.
But hopefully Democrats learn the lesson that they really need to find a way to get stuff built faster to avoid this kind of rug-pull in the future.
heatmap.news/electric-veh...
But hopefully Democrats learn the lesson that they really need to find a way to get stuff built faster to avoid this kind of rug-pull in the future.
heatmap.news/electric-veh...
And adding this to the 2028 agenda (www.theatlantic.com/internationa...)
February 3, 2025 at 12:15 AM
And adding this to the 2028 agenda (www.theatlantic.com/internationa...)
We need a 99% wealth tax on all assets over $300 billion
February 2, 2025 at 11:15 PM
We need a 99% wealth tax on all assets over $300 billion
What a coincidence!!
January 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
What a coincidence!!
Can you really “withdraw” from a made-up job?
January 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Can you really “withdraw” from a made-up job?