{"id":181648,"date":"2026-01-26T06:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T11:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/26\/america-needs-better-economic-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T06:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T11:10:08","slug":"america-needs-better-economic-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/26\/america-needs-better-economic-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"America Needs Better Economic Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7357776\/america-needs-economic-intelligence\/\">America Needs Better Economic Intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7357776\/america-needs-economic-intelligence\/\">https:\/\/time.com\/7357776\/america-needs-economic-intelligence\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-26 06:06:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"time.com\">time.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Economic Cold War:<\/strong> The U.S.-China competition is framed as an economic cold war focused on access to markets, infrastructure contracts, data, and digital systems.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lack of Measurement:<\/strong> The U.S. lacks a clear picture of where it stands competitively against China, despite tracking numerous elements related to national security and economic activity.<\/li>\n<li><strong>China\u2019s Strategic Metrics:<\/strong> In contrast to the U.S., China measures its economic competition rigorously using directional and strategic metrics like manufacturing dominance and technology self-sufficiency.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Backward-Looking Indicators:<\/strong> The U.S. uses backward-looking measures such as trade balances and foreign direct investment, which do not adequately capture the digital economy&#8217;s backbone assets like cloud infrastructure and AI platforms.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Necessity for Modern Economic Intelligence:<\/strong> To effectively compete, the U.S. needs to develop modern economic intelligence, incorporating various data sources to understand its competitive positions clearly.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Importance of Activity Metrics:<\/strong> Even rough indicators of AI activity (like where AI workloads run) can provide better insights than anecdotes if properly contextualized.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Leadership and Measurement:<\/strong> The first act of effective economic leadership in this age of economic power is to implement clear, systematic measurement processes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America Needs Better Economic Intelligence https:\/\/time.com\/7357776\/america-needs-economic-intelligence\/ Publish Date: 2026-01-26 06:06:00 Source Domain: time.com Economic Cold&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":181649,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/api.time.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Economic-intelligence.jpg?quality=85&w=1200&h=628&crop=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181650,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181648\/revisions\/181650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}