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Owen Blackwood

Owen Blackwood has watched enough launches to be interested in the boring part: what happens in month nine. He reports young companies and their funding conditions, manufacturing capacity and plant decisions, media ownership, and the fund-level detail behind index investing.

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Independent editorial contributor covering startups, industry, media ownership and fund analysis.

Articles by Owen Blackwood

Bound statute volume, stacked filings, and a stopwatch on a desk

How a trade case moves from petition to duty

Owen Blackwood

Trump Cuts Steel Tariffs To 25%

Trump Cuts Steel Tariffs To 25%

Owen Blackwood

Coils of steel and aluminum sheet stacked in an import warehouse

White House trims some metals tariffs to 15%

Owen Blackwood

Chart of differentiated metals tariff rates across product categories through 2027

New metals tariff framework runs through 2027

Owen Blackwood

Chart of federal outlays with interest line rising past program spending

Interest now outruns most of the budget

Owen Blackwood