Podcast: Caleb Watney joins the show to talk about how the rates of innovation in the United States have slowed.
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Guess what’s bad for innovation? Telling the brightest minds in the world that you don’t want them to come work with you. As obvious as that should be, that’s precisely what the Trump administration’s policy towards high skilled immigrants has done, most recently by attempting to deny visas to foreign‐born university students. Caleb Watney joins the show to discuss exactly how self‐harming these policies will be for America’s lead in global innovation, an era that we may soon be speaking of in the past tense instead of in the present.
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