Industrial policy is back in Washington, D.C., and its supporters are already crediting it with an American manufacturing “boom.” 

In one narrow sense, they have a point: Shortly after Congress and the Biden administration authorized trillions of dollars in federal subsidies for renewable energy and semiconductors under the Inflation Reduction Act and the CHIPS and Science Act, U.S. manufacturing investment and construction increased significantly.  

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