Claims / C-JHF8APWZQ2
Analytic
Most public money for new technology pays on the wrong event: it pays on failure. A loan guarantee pays the lender when the firm defaults; Thomas Kalil, quoted by Klein and Thompson, says the US makes too few commitments that pay on success, such as prizes and purchase orders, which Warp Speed used. A commitment that pays only when a checkable result arrives moves money where the information is. A decision market applies the same contingency to a choice: the treasury moves only in the branch traders price higher.
Evidence 2 passages
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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