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After the budget deal, government's role in new markets

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While this week's budget deal may pressage the repeal of subsidies that support some new markets, such as in renewable energy, there are many other, inexpensive ways for public policy to support market creation.  The interventions deal more with laying the plumbing of new markets than financing products' initial take-up.  This is an apolitical role for government that would benefit from more attention.  Read more in my post at Forbes. 

Stephen Wunker is the Managing Director of New Markets Advisors and the Author of Capturing New Markets: How Smart Companies Create Opportunities Others Don't.