Why Washington Went to Wall Street to Revive the Chips Industry
Aug 21, 2023•19 min•Transcript available on Metacast Episode description
Since the Chips Act passed last summer, the Commerce Department has been building a small team of elite Wall Street financiers to help allocate $39 billion in taxpayer-funded subsidies to hundreds of companies. We speak to WSJ’S Yuka Hayashi about the Chips Program Office team and to Todd Fisher, the man who leads it.
Further Listening:
- The U.S. Wants American-Made Chips. Can Intel Deliver?
- The $1 Trillion Company That Started at Denny’s
Further Reading:
- Why Washington Went to Wall Street to Revive the U.S. Chips Industry
- Chips Are the New Oil and America Is Spending Billions to Safeguard Its Supply
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