For every action, something can go sideways

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4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

President Trump's recent deal with Intel gives the U.S. government a 10% ownership stake in the company. But today, Intel responded with a regulatory filing, outlining all of the ways this deal could go sideways. We take a look at the unintended consequences of governments owning companies. Also on the show: why prices have been slow to rise in response to tariffs and what to expect from the fall retail season.

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0:37.9	UK slash Marketplace 22.
0:40.6	Go to Shopify.com.
0:42.3	UK slash Marketplace 22.
0:47.8	Here is today's macroeconomic reminder for every action.
0:54.0	Well, something can go sideways.
0:56.9	From American public media, this is Marketplace.
1:06.3	In Los Angeles, I'm Kyle Rizdahl. It is Monday, today the 25th of August. Good as always to have you along, everybody. We delve only rarely on this program into corporate filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission for reasons that one hopes are readily apparent.
1:29.2	Sintillating reading, they are not.
1:34.8	But every now and then, one does find a diamond in the fine print, and that is where we find ourselves today.
1:36.4	The filing in question is SEC Form 8K, filed by Intel on Friday afternoon.
1:42.4	Right around the time President Trump was trumpeting the government taking an $8.5-ish billion stake in the troubled chipmaker, the grants authorized during the Biden administration.
1:52.4	You might remember that in return for about 10% of the company.
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