From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Free Expression with Jerry Baker.

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I'm Jerry Baker, editor at large of the journal.

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This week,

Trump's second-term economy. Donald Trump's been putting together his new administration at a breakneck pace. It's just two weeks since Election Day now, and we've already had more

than a dozen nominations or appointments to senior positions. But with very big questions

looming about fiscal, regulatory, international trade and other policies,

what's going on with the President-elect's economics team?

Well, the report suggests there's been something of a power struggle over the top jobs.

The longstanding favorite, according to those in the know, for the position of Treasury Secretary,

has been Scott Besant, a top hedge fund executive and a long-time

associate of Trump's. But then, it seems, Howard Lucknick, boss of a major bond trading firm and co-chair

of Trump's transition team, had been making something of a case that he should get the job.

Last week, Elon Musk, who seems to be a kind of co-president these days, weighed in publicly

on Lutnik's side.

Then it was reported that Trump was so frustrated with the jockeying that he was considering

other candidates.

Kevin Walsh, a former Federal Reserve Governor, Mark Rowan, co-founder Apollo Global Management,

along with other names such as Robert Lightheiser, perhaps, the U.S. Trade Representative

in Trump's

first term, and Bill Haggerty, Senator from Tennessee. Now, the plot thickened Tuesday,

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