Think Tank Quickies (#490)
- Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts says he sees the think tank's role as "institutionalizing Trumpism." [WaPo's Josh Rogin calls the interview "disgraceful."]
- Hansjorg Wyss, the Swiss billionaire cast by US conservatives as the "New Soros," is a member of the board of the Center for American Progress (CAP).
- "That may be the real lesson at Davos: Everyone is winging it, experts
and schlubs alike, muddling through with at best fragmentary
understandings of a fast-moving world and its inscrutable future," notes
Politico's John Harris in a piece entitled "Why the Davos Smart Set Sounds Dumb."
- A think tank run by former Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz is leading a $1 billion effort to spur US hydrogen production.
- Chaguan (Economist) attended the Stockholm China Forum, a private
gathering in Singapore of American, Chinese and European officials and
scholars convened by the German Marshall Fund and Sweden's foreign
ministry.
- Jens Stoltenberg speaks at Heritage Foundation - "the latest pilgrimage by a global ally to appeal to increasingly isolationist conservatives."
- PIIE scholar Chad Bown becomes chief economist at the US State Department.
- Meet the think tank behind the agribusiness' legislative wins in Brazil.
- President of the Center for China and Globalization, Henry Huiyao Wang, has a new book on think tanks.
- Nippon Steel sent delegation to Washington to talk with think tank analysts about CFIUS review related to its acquisition of US Steel.
- Companies are re-thinking the in-house think tank.
