Trump Keeps Blurring the Line Between Capitalism and Socialism
https://www.wsj.com/economy/trump-keeps-blurring-the-line-between-capitalism-and-socialism-0772d695
https://www.wsj.com/economy/trump-keeps-blurring-the-line-between-capitalism-and-socialism-0772d695
Trump Is Embracing 'Daddy State' Economics
https://reason.com/2025/09/18/trump-is-embracing-daddy-state-economics/
Markets thrive on predictable rules, but when the president takes equity stakes or pressures firms at will, investment and risk-taking give way to hesitation.
https://reason.com/2025/09/18/trump-is-embracing-daddy-state-economics/
Markets thrive on predictable rules, but when the president takes equity stakes or pressures firms at will, investment and risk-taking give way to hesitation.
Lawless State Capitalism Is No Answer to China’s Rise
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/trump-state-capitalism-lawless-and-no-answer-to-china-rivalry-by-curtis-j-milhaupt-and-angela-huyue-zhang-2025-09
Invoking national security and the economic rivalry with China, the Trump administration is pursuing legally dubious interventions and control of private industry, with potentially high costs for US dynamism. Like the panic over Japan's rise in the 1980s, the administration's response is unwarranted and counterproductive.
Tiffany Trump Cruised on an Oil Mogul’s Yacht as Her Father-in-Law Talked Oil Deals
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/world/europe/tiffany-trump-yacht-oil.html
The vacation, amid diplomatic talks on oil industry expansion, is a measure of how hard it is to tell where the interests of government end and those of the Trump family begin.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/trump-state-capitalism-lawless-and-no-answer-to-china-rivalry-by-curtis-j-milhaupt-and-angela-huyue-zhang-2025-09
Invoking national security and the economic rivalry with China, the Trump administration is pursuing legally dubious interventions and control of private industry, with potentially high costs for US dynamism. Like the panic over Japan's rise in the 1980s, the administration's response is unwarranted and counterproductive.
Tiffany Trump Cruised on an Oil Mogul’s Yacht as Her Father-in-Law Talked Oil Deals
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/world/europe/tiffany-trump-yacht-oil.html
The vacation, amid diplomatic talks on oil industry expansion, is a measure of how hard it is to tell where the interests of government end and those of the Trump family begin.
Washington’s K Street runs express to White House
https://www.reuters.com/commentary/breakingviews/washingtons-k-street-runs-express-white-house-2025-09-17
An extremely personalist approach to politics is making bad lobbying habits worse. President Donald Trump’s leadership approach has shredded procurement processes, amplified friendships and intensified punishments against enemies, creating a fresh – and new kind of – boom on K Street, where Washington’s influence peddlers call home. The returns on such investment are also now far less predictable.
https://www.reuters.com/commentary/breakingviews/washingtons-k-street-runs-express-white-house-2025-09-17
An extremely personalist approach to politics is making bad lobbying habits worse. President Donald Trump’s leadership approach has shredded procurement processes, amplified friendships and intensified punishments against enemies, creating a fresh – and new kind of – boom on K Street, where Washington’s influence peddlers call home. The returns on such investment are also now far less predictable.
Chairman Trump: has the US turned its back on free-market capitalism?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/30/chairman-trump-us-economy
Republicans once believed governments should get out of the way. Trump is making his influence felt in every corner of the American economy.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/30/chairman-trump-us-economy
Republicans once believed governments should get out of the way. Trump is making his influence felt in every corner of the American economy.
The calculated silence of America’s business and finance leaders
https://www.ft.com/content/bd5a7374-63ae-49eb-a714-dcff03fa764b
https://www.ft.com/content/bd5a7374-63ae-49eb-a714-dcff03fa764b
Corporate America is silent as Trump abandons free-market principles
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/20/business/companies-trump-free-market
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/20/business/companies-trump-free-market
Corporate America’s Newest Activist Investor: Donald Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/business/trump-intel-us-steel-nvidia.html
The president is demanding government stakes in U.S. companies. Experts see some similarities to state-managed capitalism in other parts of the world.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/business/trump-intel-us-steel-nvidia.html
The president is demanding government stakes in U.S. companies. Experts see some similarities to state-managed capitalism in other parts of the world.
Investors grapple with Trump’s corporate America by Katie Martin
https://www.ft.com/content/cac34e31-b4b9-4a72-ac06-3d72687bee3f
It is no longer left to the invisible hand of capitalism to figure out who are the winners.
https://www.ft.com/content/cac34e31-b4b9-4a72-ac06-3d72687bee3f
It is no longer left to the invisible hand of capitalism to figure out who are the winners.
The U.S. Marches Toward State Capitalism with American Characteristics
https://www.wsj.com/economy/the-u-s-marches-toward-state-capitalism-with-american-characteristics-f75cafa8
President Trump is imitating Chinese Communist Party by extending political control ever deeper into economy.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/the-u-s-marches-toward-state-capitalism-with-american-characteristics-f75cafa8
President Trump is imitating Chinese Communist Party by extending political control ever deeper into economy.
Trump’s strongman capitalism risks killing American enterprise
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/08/17/trumps-strongman-capitalism-will-kill-american-enterprise/
The US president’s interference in business runs against his country’s great traditions.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/08/17/trumps-strongman-capitalism-will-kill-american-enterprise/
The US president’s interference in business runs against his country’s great traditions.