Exaggerating Goliath Officials in the Biden Administration are determined to take down America’s big corporations and if they follow the focus of Karl Marx in his Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts that preceded Das Kapital, they will also set their sights on Big Ag. The large, landed gentry were the FANGGs of Marx’s era. Wall Street Journal senior correspondent Jacob M. Schlesinger notes that the Biden Administration’s attack on Big Business is not about economics, but rather social and political goals. The public would argue that Amazon has been inherently good for them, but the modern day Brandeisians hired by the White House are solely focused on size. Schlesinger notes that one of the Administration’s chief a...
Key Market Insights The broad market is locked in on this week’s Trump-Xi meeting in Beijing, but this is no longer just a trade summit. Increasingly, the meeting is becoming tied directly to Iran, energy security, and the growing global economic fallout from disruptions through the Strai...
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Weighing in on strategic realignment
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