Industrial Policy & Strategy Newsletter

ISA announces a major restructuring of the weekly industrial policy and strategy newsletter. This newsletter was first issued in October 2021 and has been faithfully edited since then by ISA board member Andrew Reamer. Your feedback on this new structure is welcome, via email, to [email protected].

The ISA produces a weekly member newsletter providing links to recent postings from the federal government, media, research institutions, and diverse advocacy organizations on subjects relevant to federal industrial policy and strategy. Through the end of the Biden Administration, the newsletter provided substantial detail by subject area. With the Trump Administration's arrival, the newsletter is focusing more tightly on the nature and impact of the federal government's new initiatives.  

This section of the Members Only Area provides members with: a hyperlinked list of various sources of news, analysis, data, and information used to populate the former and current formats of the newsletter; and access to previous issues of the newsletter (which started in October 2021). The list of sources, which will be regularly updated, enables members to stay informed in realms not tracked by the current version of the newsletter. Access to previous issues enables members to track the evolution of efforts in various industrial policy realms over the last several years. 

Sources of News and Analysis Relevant to Industrial Policies

Each day, a substantial volume of news and analysis relevant to industrial policy, and industry studies more generally, is generated by federal agencies, think tanks, academia, nonprofit organizations, blogs, and news media. ISA's regularly updated listing of over 125 sources, organized by type, enables members to stay abreast of current news and publication releases pertinent to their efforts. Nearly all sources invite users to request periodic feeds on particular topics, though a paid subscription may be required. At present, the list is organized by the categories used in the legacy ISA weekly industrial policy newsletter.

(Updated January 28, 2025)

Federal Government-wide

• Federal Register

Congress

• Senate Confirmations
• Congressional Budget Office (CBO) blog
• Government Accountability Office (GAO) most recent reports
• Congressional Research Service (CRS) most recent reports

White House

• News

Federal Departments & Agencies—news releases

• Department of Commerce
  • Census Bureau
  • Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
• Department of Labor
  • Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
• Department of the Treasury
• Federal Reserve Board
• Federal Reserve Bank of New York -- Liberty Street Economics
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
• Department of Energy
• Department of Transportation
• Department of Health & Human Services
  • Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
  • National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
• Department of Education
  • Institute for Education Studies (IES)
• Department of Housing & Urban Development
• Department of Agriculture
• Department of the Interior
• Department of Defense
• Department of State
• Department of Homeland Security
• Small Business Administration
• National Science Foundation (NSF)
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
• Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
• Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB)
• Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)
• U.S. International Trade Commission
• Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)

Policy & Industry Research & Analysis—Working Papers, Issue Briefs, Articles, Reports

• Scholars
  • National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
  • NABE Business Economics
  • AEA Journal of Economic Perspectives
  • AEA Papers & Proceedings
  • Project Syndicate
  • Scholars Strategy Network
  • Foreign Affairs
  • Democracy Journal
  • American Affairs
  • New York Review of Books
  • Harvard Business Review
  • HBS Working Knowledge
  • Knowledge at Wharton
  • New Growth Innovation Network
• Think Tanks
  • Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), Economic Security & Technology Department
  • Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)
  • Wilson Center, Wahba Institute for Strategic Competition
  • The Atlantic Council
  • Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)
  • CFR RealEcon
  • McKinsey Global Institute
  • RAND
  • Institute for Progress
  • New America Foundation
  • Third Way
  • Niskanen Center
  • The Hamilton Project, Brookings
  • Urban Institute
  • Roosevelt Institute
  • Washington Center for Equitable Growth
• National Academies of Science, Engineering, & Medicine
  • National Academies, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education
  • National Academies, Government-University-Industry-Philanthropy Research Roundtable (GUIPRR)
• Business Consultancies
  • Deloitte Insights
  • McKinsey and Company
  • BCG
• Federal Agencies
  • U.S.-China Economic& Security Review Commission
  • Census Bureau working papers
  • HHS Asst Secretary for Planning & Evaluation (ASPE)

Science & Technology

• AAAS ScienceAdviser
• MIT Technology Review
• National Center for Science & Engineering Statistics (NCSES)
• Wilson Center, Science and Technology Innovation Program
• Federation of American Scientists
• Center for Data Innovation

Workforce & Education

• The Job – Paul Fain
• Lumina Daily Headlines
• Project on Workforce at Harvard
• Revelio Labs
• Data Quality Campaign

Regional Economic Development

• State S&T Institute
• Area Development
• Brookings Metro

International Organizations

• World Trade Organization
• World Bank
• International Monetary Fund
• World Economic Forum Centres
• Organization for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD)
• European Union
• European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE)
• International Energy Agency (IEA)
• International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)

General Media

• Washington Post
• New York Times
• The Atlantic
• The New Yorker

Business, Industry, and Financial Media

• Wall Street Journal
• Bloomberg
• Business Insider
• The Economist
• Financial Times
• Fortune
• Forbes
• Canary Media

Political Media

• Semafor
• The Hill
• Punchbowl

Blogs

• Economic
  • Paul Krugman
  • Conversable Economist (Timothy Taylor)
  • Noahpinion (Noah Smith)
  • Grasping Reality (Brad DeLong)
  • Agglomerations EIG (Economic Innovation Group)
  • High Capacity (Kyle Chan)
  • Special Competitive Studies Project
  • EconoFact
  • Construction Physics IFP (Brian Potter)
• Political
  • Statecraft IFP
  • Briefing Book
  • The Liberal Patriot
  • Slow Boring
  • Understanding America (Oren Cass)
  • The Downballot
  • Programmable Mutter (Henry Farrell)
     

Sources of Reference Data and Information

ISA maintains a regularly updated list of over 90 online sources of economic and sector-specific data and information provided by federal agencies and nonprofit organizations. Sources are organized by categories in the legacy newsletter. 

(Updated January 28, 2025. )

I. Economy-wide Statistics, Indicators, & Analyses

A. State of the Economy

• BLS U.S. Economy at a Glance
• BEA U.S. Economy at a Glance
• Census Bureau Economic Indicators
• Federal Reserve Industrial Production & Capacity Utilization
• Brookings Hutchins Center Fiscal Impact Measure  

B. Economic Indicators, Statistics & Data Enterprise

• Census Data Explorer
• CREAT: Census Research Exploration and Analysis Tool
• BLS Data Tools
• BEA Interactive Data Application
• NCSES Knowledge Base
• NCES Data Lab
• IRS Tax Stats
• ITA Trade Statistics
• 2030 Census Research Project Explorer
• OMB StatsPolicy

II. Nationwide Economic Development, Competitiveness, & Trade

A. U.S. Economic Competitiveness

• Observatory of Economic Complexity—U.S. profile
• The Atlas of Economic Complexity—U.S. Profile
• ITA Industry Analyses

B. Global Value & Supply Chains

• NY Fed Global Supply Chain Pressure Index (GSCPI)
• ITA Supply Chain Center
• USTR Supply Chain Resilience
• BEA Global Supply Chain Data
• BTS Freight Logistics Optimization Works (FLOW)
• IMF Portwatch

C. International Trade and Finance   

• ITA Trade Data & Analysis
• Census International Trade
• BEA International Trade in Goods & Services
• DHS Trade Statistics
• MGI Global Trade Explorer
• Global Trade Alert
• World Bank GDP price level index & PPP-based GDP per capita index by economy

D. International Collaboration & Investment 

• BEA International Investment Position
• BEA New Foreign Direct Investment in the United States

E. Innovation and R&D

• National Science Board Science & Engineering Indicators
• TIP Awards Database
• NSF by the Numbers
• Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC)

F. Intellectual Property

G. Competition, Market Power, Management, M&A, Antitrust, Regulation, Standards, Bankruptcy

H. Procurement and Buy America

I. National Security of Industrial Base and Infrastructure

J. State, Regional, and Rural Economic Development

• FRB Beige Book
• PolicyMap
• Urban Institute State Economic Monitor
• Harvard Growth Lab Metroverse
• ITA State Trade Data Tools
• Urban Institute Upward Mobility Data Dashboard 
• CHIPS Funding Map
• TIP Awards Database
• NSF Award Numbers by State
• NSF Regional Innovation Engines & EDA Investments--map
• USDA Rural Data Gateway
• Aspen CSG Thrive Rural Resource Center
• ALICE Economic Viability Dashboard
• CORE Scores (by county)—American Academy of Arts & Sciences

K. Immigration 

L. Global Economy + Competitiveness of Other Nations 

• The Atlas of Economic Complexity—Harvard Growth Lab
• Observatory of Economic Complexity -- Datawheel
• MacroPolo: Decoding China’s Economic Arrival—Paulson Institute
• China Pathfinder -- Atlantic Council/Rhodium Group

N. Industrial Strategy Rationale, Tools, Methods, Assessments

• New Industrial Policy Observatory—Global Trade Alert 

III. Individual Technologies and Sectors

A. Manufacturing

• ITA Manufacturing Industry Tracker
• ITA Machinery Manufacturing Trade Dashboard

B. Critical Minerals and Mining

C. Scientific Research and Emerging Technologies

D. Information and Communication Technologies

E. Energy

• ITA Environmental Technologies Trade Dashboard
• MIT Clean Investment Monitor
• E2 Clean Economy Works
• State Policy Opportunity Tracker (SPOT) for Clean Energy

F. Defense

G. Health and Biomedical

• ASHP Drug Shortages

H. Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Food Products

I. Transportation and Distribution

J. Construction and Commercial Real Estate

K. Housing

• National Zoning Atlas
• FHFA Mortgage Loan and Natural Disaster Dashboard

L. Financial Capital, Services, Markets + Insurance

• SEC Market Activity Data Visualizations
• Urban Institute Debt in America: An Interactive Map

M. Retail & Wholesale Trade

N. Travel, Tourism, & the Arts

O. Services

IV. Competitiveness Determinants and Influences

A. Workforce, Education, and Training

   -- Workforce

• ETA Workforce Data Hub
• Layoffs.fyi - Tech Layoff Tracker and Startup Layoff Lists
• American Opportunity Index

-- Education and Training

• NCES Data Lab
• ETA Workforce Data Hub
• NCSES Survey Data
• Strada State Opportunity Index 
• Workforce Almanac—Project on Workforce at Harvard
• American Community Survey – Education Tabulation (ACS-ED)

B. Entrepreneurship and Small Business

C. Environment and Climate Change

• U.S. Global Change Research Program
• Census Community Resilience Estimates visualization tool
• Federal Agency-Specific Progress on Sustainability & Climate Resilience Goals
• EPA Envirofacts
• EPA FLIGHT
• NOAA GlobalTemp
• Global Tipping Points
• Climate TRACE—Independent Greenhouse Gas Emissions Tracking

D. Distribution of Opportunity, Income, & Wealth + Social Policy

• Census Opportunity Atlas Data Tool

E. Governance + Regulatory, Tax, Fiscal & Monetary Policy

• CBO Budget and Economic Data
• Partnership for Public Service Agency Performance Dashboard
• Strategic Plans, Performance Reports, Priority Goals, & Learning Agendas by Agency--Performance.gov
• Learning Agenda Questions Dashboard – Evaluation.gov  
• Evidence Plans by Agency—Evaluation.gov
  
  

Archive of Past Newsletters

We now provide access to ISA members to the archive of all past Industrial Policy & Strategy newsletters (October 2021 through March 2025) in folders organized by year.  

• 2025
• 2024
• 2023
• 2022
• 2021