An institution that is $40 trillion in debt should be SELLING assets not buying them.

Here is the dark flipside of Trump’s efforts to promote broader investment by individuals in US companies – he is also pursuing federal ownership stakes in, by latest count, 36 companies across a swath of different industries.

We thought government control of the means of production was what we were fighting against!

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