26: Professor Epstein Slams Trump's Economic Policies as 'State Socialism'. Professor Richard Epstein analyzes four Trump administration economic decisions concerning Intel, Nvidia, US Steel, and MP Mining, labeling them forms of state-owned enterprise or "st
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 25 October 2025
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| 0:30.1 | This is CBSI and the world. I'm John Baxter. I welcome my good colleague, Professor Richard Epstein teaches law at NYU and the University of Chicago. He is at the Civitas Institute |
| 0:36.0 | writing most recently about decisions by the Trump |
| 0:38.6 | administration. They're at odds with our understanding of capitalism and seem to support |
| 0:45.0 | the idea of state-owned enterprises. In other words, what we accuse China of doing, subsidizing |
| 0:51.3 | favored industries that distort competition not only nationally but internationally. |
| 0:57.8 | Richard, a very good day to you. |
| 0:59.3 | You've published a piece that looks at four decisions by the Trump administration that suggests that |
| 1:06.5 | state-owned enterprises also come to the White House. |
| 1:09.9 | The first decision requires us to understand Intel, a favored company in the 20th century, |
| 1:17.0 | the early wave of building the digital universe we now live in. |
| 1:21.6 | However, somewhere between the year 2000 and the year 2025, the opinion on Wall Street is that Intel lost its way to other |
| 1:30.4 | competitors and was bumping along the bottom of expectation until suddenly the Trump |
| 1:37.8 | administration told us they were investing in Intel, 10% of the company for the United States government led by the Trump |
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