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AI and geopolitics

The Technological Iron Curtain: AI Acceleration Meets Geopolitical Tension

  • November 20, 2025
At NAIOP’s Data Center Summit this week, a high-level group of data center developers, investors, energy/utility leaders and others gathered to discuss the key challenges and opportunities in the data center space.
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U.S.-China trade winds

Navigating Trade Winds: U.S.-China Tariffs and E-commerce

  • March 27, 2025
U.S. tariffs have been on the rise over the last several years, often targeting China and affecting global manufacturing with major implications for logistics. If tariffs continue to rise as expected, what will this shift mean for West Coast industrial real estate?  
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Chris Thornberg

Examining Political Narratives and Economic Realities

  • March 27, 2025
“The first thing I have to talk about today is what we think is happening in our economy,” began Chris Thornberg, Ph.D., founder of Beacon Economics and keynote speaker at I.CON West this week in Los Angeles. “The other thing I'm going to talk about is what's actually happening in the economy today. That is to say, our objective statistical reality. The world I see in the data on a day-to-day basis.”
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Capitol Hill

2024 A Strong Year for NAIOP’s Federal Advocacy

  • December 18, 2024
Congress is expected to close out the year this week with an agreement to pass a continuing budget resolution that will avoid a government shutdown before Christmas. That will push the funding debate to at least March 2025, when NAIOP will again be advocating on behalf of its members in what will be the biggest tax reform fight of the last decade. But a strong year for advocacy in 2024 prepares us well for the future.
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November Election Could See a Historic Switch in House and Senate Majorities

  • April 17, 2024
With national and swing state polls indicating support between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump is fairly even, casual political observers could be forgiven for not realizing that House and Senate races are also tight; there could even be a historic switch in the House and Senate majorities this November. 
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Capitol building

President Joe Biden’s Opening Shot in 2025 Tax Fight

  • April 3, 2024
On March 11, President Joe Biden submitted his FY 2025 Proposed Budget to Congress. Unlike prior year budget proposals, this one is a setup for an unavoidable tax debate in 2025, when many of the tax provisions enacted during the Trump administration in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 will expire.
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Capitol building

An Action-packed Week in Washington

  • March 6, 2024
The quest to approve federal funding continued during another busy week in Washington, where lawmakers took up a $435 billion funding package that includes the FDA and a number of other departments. Also this week, 16 states and American Samoa held presidential primary elections, with 854 Republican and 1,420 Democratic delegates at stake.
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Chris Cillizza

Who Will the Bear Eat? The Perils of Hiking in the Presidential Woods

  • February 20, 2024
The 2024 presidential election is reminiscent of a classic joke about two guys who are hiking in the woods and come across a grizzly bear, said political commentator and journalist Chris Cillizza during NAIOP’s Chapter Leadership & Legislative Retreat last week. One hiker takes off his hiking shoes, opens his backpack and puts on his running shoes. The other says, “What are you doing? You can’t outrun a bear!” The second hiker replies, “I don’t need to outrun the bear. I only need to outrun you.”
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