Public money for new technology brings more of it to market per dollar when it pays on delivery, as a prize or advance purchase, than when it guarantees loans that pay out on failure.

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• groundsAbundance, Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson

  The US often makes financial commitments contingent on failure, like loan guarantees which pay a lender in the event of a default

• groundsAbundance, Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson

  But we don't make enough financial commitments contingent on success, like a prize or advance purchase order, Operation Warp Speed did it very successfully.

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