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You know, markets, contrary to orthodox libertarian ideology, markets actually don't function on their own.

And especially in modern markets where, you know, the U.S. government and other governments

around the world and central banks provide really important signals, really important data,

and really important rules for the road that keep things functioning relatively smoothly.

And also they punish bad actors.

So if you take all of that away, that leads to a lot more

business uncertainty and it's bad for markets.

Push and pull hirings and firings, orders to centralize minute command over federal agencies,

showdowns over access to sensitive data and payment system, and a growing battle

over judicial pushback to all of this.

The early days of President Donald Trump's administration may be confounding on many fronts,

but he and his advisors attempt to slice through the thicket of dispersed institutional power

that typically restrains the White House is a constant.

Whether this scrambling of both custom and legal precedent to empower the executive

threatens the very goals trumps back as thought they were pursuing

is the subject of this week's Viewerum.

Welcome back to the Viewsroom, the weekly podcast that invites you, the listener,

into a lively debate with my fellow colonists about the biggest stories of the week. I'm your host, Jonathan Guilford. And I'm Amy Dunlund. Donald Trump is hardly alone in bristling against the checks on the presidency imposed by legislators, judges and even heads of agencies inside his own government.

But he and close advisor and Tesla boss Elon Musk have pushed this uniquely far.

Yet that doesn't seem to have won much enthusiasm from the business interests

that usually line up behind his Republican Party.

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