Wait a second. Did I just hear one of President Trump's top three choices for the Fed say that it's very important for the Fed to be independent, even of President Trump. Is that possible. Yes, it is.Because all this stuff is overblown and the people he's picking do care about Fed independence and everyone wants to go after Trump because he has an opinion on monetary policy, which he's entitled to do. But the people he's talking about here understand the Fed's proper role and they're they're bold enough to ...

Government Intervention & Nationalization Concerns - Taking 15% of Nvidia and AMD's revenues is viewed as a tax and a form of nationalizing the business [2] - Offering Claude to the government for $1 blurs the lines between the state and the free market [2] - Blurring the lines between the state and enterprises makes the US look more like China [1][2] National Security & Free Market - Government intervention raises national security questions [2] - The approach of taking a percentage of profits is not the right way to address deficits [1]

Financial Times reporting how M&A bankers find the deal making is tough because all of this reflects partisan agendas. A top dealmaker says people in the Trump White House say there's a level of intrusion I've never experienced before. And let me tell you something, that's a financial outlet FT abroad and bankers. They lean right or they just want a free market. Some of them would say, but this is not some left-wing Democratic liberal critique. We are early in the second term. In the first term, you remembe ...