industries

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To finance the initiative, he invoked the Defense Production Act, a Cold War-era law that grants the president broad authority to support industries considered vital to national security.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

Really, the constraint on Chinese growth is chronic malinvestment of the country’s savings, which are diverted toward export-manufacturing industries and low-productivity state-owned enterprises rather than toward investment in domestic services and the like.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

“While recent developments in AI offer the promise of generational technological advances and are important for U.S. tech leadership, we must also ensure other key industries are not negatively impacted,” the letter read.

From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026

These kinds of commoditized industries tend to succumb to price wars: The lowest-cost producer “wins” by destroying the entire industry’s margins.

From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026

Since the Germans are evidently perfectly capable of organizing industries well, why can’t they do so when it comes to beer?

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond