In the USSR, the state owned the means of production. That isn’t the desire here, economic nationalism is. We’re reverting back to the American School of Economics. Someone in Trump’s group of economic advisers must be a big fan of Friedrich List.
My first thought was “sounds like communism”. Not that I’m either for or against the idea. Just seems to line up with the literal definition as I know it.
Intel can become like Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. If that happened, then who would be the regulator providing oversight of Intel?
Whichever regulators are left standing after P2025 is done.
The US is slowly becoming the USSR. The state has a share in every company, and every boardroom, has a political commissar nominated by one person.
"Bessent says unusual Nvidia, AMD revenue-sharing deal could be a ‘model’ for other industries" - https://fortune.com/2025/08/13/bessent-nvidia-amd-china-deal...
You mean China, which has successfully outcompeted due to govt financing in many industries.
> You mean China, which has successfully outcompeted due to govt financing in many industries.
CHIPS act was exactly that - Loans without stake in the companies
In the USSR, the state owned the means of production. That isn’t the desire here, economic nationalism is. We’re reverting back to the American School of Economics. Someone in Trump’s group of economic advisers must be a big fan of Friedrich List.
You took the words right out of my mouth. Funny how totalitarian dictatorships are all alike.
My first thought was “sounds like communism”. Not that I’m either for or against the idea. Just seems to line up with the literal definition as I know it.
Complete with a strongman dictator, suppression of journalism and free speech, arbitrary and lawless centralized policymaking, and crony patronage.
Welcome to communism.. of, by, and for the rich with deprivation and anarcho-capitalism for everyone else.