2025-12-15
The Times looks at how Trump business interests overlap with SEC crypto cases in the second term. NYT finds that the SEC inherited 23 crypto cases, of which 14 were dropped, frozen, settled, or conceded. All of those had Trump ties. None of the remaining nine cases do www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u... …
New York Times
Investigation: after Trump returned to the White House, the SEC eased up on or dismissed 60%+ of ongoing crypto cases, including ones about Trump-tied companies
So Why the Headline? New York Times : How The Times Analyzed the S.E.C.'s Cryptocurrency Enforcement X: Alex Thorn / @intangiblecoins : i really want to believe that NYT is trustwo...
2025-08-02
Bloomberg does the math and finds that the Trump administration “has excluded more than a third of US imports by value” from tariffs. It's probably $1 trillion in goods. The process of getting exclusions is a “free for all.” www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... [image]
Bloomberg
Analysis: since April 2, President Trump has excluded over $100B in US smartphone and laptop imports from tariffs, highlighting conflicting administration goals
Exclusions reflect conflicting goals: to rip up the rules of global trade while cushioning US consumers.
2025-05-26
“[Bessent] wants something that can become the blueprint for a new sovereign-to-sovereign financial architecture, while Japan wants a properly governed covenant that protects Japan from the ad hoc decisions of Oval Office politics.”
Financial Times
Sources: SoftBank's Masayoshi Son pitched a joint US-Japan sovereign fund to top DC and Tokyo officials to back large tech and infrastructure projects in the US
Washington and Tokyo discuss possibility of fund that would make large-scale US tech and infrastructure investments