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Walter Isaacson: Trump's Nvidia and Intel meddling is a 'scattershot method of crony capitalism'
CNBC Television· 2025-08-21 16:45
Well, as you know, and I talked to Joe about it a week ago on this show, I really believe we got to bring manufacturing back and especially if we want to have uh stand up to China in certain instances, we got to bring chip manufacturing back. Uh just a question of the way to do it. I think that uh to some extent using tariffs on especially things that are uh defense related or national security related is important but to have the government decide it's going to take a stake in Intel and not take a stake in ...
'It's bananas.' Trump teases semiconductor tariffs as high as 300%
MSNBC· 2025-08-16 04:17
It was a long week for economic data and some of it showed that tariffs are beginning to hit consumers harder. And today the president teased that tariffs on semiconductors that could be set as soon as next week. Those tariffs could be between two and 300%.Well, as much as economic data we got all week, I have been waiting all week to talk to this guy, my friend Justin Wolfers. He is a professor of economics and public policy at the University of Michigan. I want to talk about everything, but let's start sp ...