Portrait of Jim Tankersley

Jim Tankersley

I write about the Biden administration’s economic policies and how those policies affect the country and the world. I cover the president at international economic summits, track his negotiations with lawmakers in Congress and explain how his top advisers are debating key economic issues. I am particularly focused on investigating the effects of Mr. Biden’s industrial policy agenda, which is spending hundreds of billions of dollars to promote advanced domestic manufacturing and the deployment of low-emission energy technologies to fight climate change.

I have covered economic policy in Washington for more than a dozen years, with a focus on the stagnation of the American middle class and the decline of economic opportunity in wide swaths of the country. I am the author of a book about those themes: “The Riches of This Land: The Untold, True Story of America’s Middle Class,” published in 2020.

Earlier in my career, I worked at newspapers including The Oregonian, the Rocky Mountain News, The Blade (in Toledo, Ohio) and The Washington Post. In 2007, a colleague and I won the Livingston Award for Young Journalists for a series of stories exploring why the Ohio economy declined drastically over the course of a generation.

I grew up in McMinnville, Oregon, and have a bachelor’s degree in political science from Stanford University. I live outside Washington with my wife and two children.

All Times journalists are committed to upholding the standards of integrity outlined in our Ethical Journalism Handbook. I do not actively trade stocks or other investments. I cannot accept gifts, money or favors from anyone who might figure into my reporting. I do not participate in politics, nor do I make political donations. I am always careful to identify myself as a reporter for The Times in news-related conversations.

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    The Cost of Competing With China

    The Biden administration is betting that new China tariffs will be politically popular, even if they could slow the transition from fossil fuels.

    By Jim Tankersley and David Gelles

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