Summary
Robert Reich argues that Wall Street, not political or institutional checks, will be the primary constraint on Donald Trump’s upcoming presidency.
While Trump’s cabinet includes disruptive figures like RFK Jr. and Pete Hegseth, his pick for Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, a hedge fund manager tied to Wall Street, signals an intent to reassure financial markets.
Wall Street’s fear of inflation and stock market instability could curb Trump’s tariff plans, despite their populist appeal.
Ultimately, Reich criticizes the reliance on markets, rather than democratic mechanisms, to limit Trump’s power.
What an understatement of a headline.
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AMA request: Someone who genuinely believes that Trump’s cabinet will be anti-Wall Street.
Surely this cabal of billionaires will be just the ones to put those rotten billionaires in their place!
I believe his (and Putin’s) goal is to destabilize (destroy) the western order, devalue the current global currency (USD), crash the central banks, fully shift economic power eastward, inflate crypto.
Tariffs on all north American trading partners will cause harm to the entire continent and beyond.
If none can trade, none can profit. If the tarrifs go to gov, with this admin, will they really?
The only thing pro wall street will be how they siphon off whatever wealth is left, pump and dump, crash and burn.
Trump has no goal other then self gratification and being the center of attention. Putin’s goal is to destabilize the US and he’s doing that by supporting Trump.
Paradoxically Trump only cares about cash of which I imagine is American currency. So confusing.
It’s weird how the qons all have deluded themselves into thinking they are some kind of rebels, sticking it to The Man, by voting for a Manhattanite and alleged billionaire who has been thirsty to be accepted among the upper of the upper crust all of his sad little life.
The same batch rally around slogans like “save the children” because they think Hillary is trafficking children for pedos - then they vote for a pedo who was besties with a prominent pedo before he died in jail and who is the type that nominates another pedo for AG.
Mf he is literally Mister Wallstreet, that was his entire shtick and TV personality, how the fuck anyone got “he’s anti wall street” out of that needs to be committed
LOL, anti-Wall Street? What fucking voters believe that?
For all of his pathetic bullshit life, donvict has wanted to be among the elite of Wall Street. What kind of complete dumbass thinks he’s going to be ANTI Wall Street?
Why the hell would it be? Donald Trump is a lifelong corpo. Anyone who believes he gives a single shit about the common folk is delusional.
The system will be tuned to work even better for corporate profits at the expense of the citizens.
I had thought tfg and his cabinet were entirely pro Wall Street …
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Who thought it would be? I see Musk’s name come up repeatedly in the article, but I don’t know why he’d think this or even why he’d be mad about this since he owes his vast fortunes to wall street. I could imagine cryptocurrency clowns thinking Trump would give them an anti-wall street cabinet, but they’re too stupid to realize that bitcoin is valued as high as it is now because of wall street, even though these same clowns were cheering so hard about bitcoin ETFs being approved a short while ago.
“Pol Pot isn’t as anti-agrarian as some Cambodians may want to believe.”
The “anti” was “sarcasm”
Unrelated but that is an extremely unfortunate name to have today.
He hired a top investor for their ultimate boogeyman, George Soros… The lesson to take is once you give a narcissist what he wants that is the end of your usefulness and your opinion being honored is no longer a means to an end. This important lesson will be unlearned in less than 4 years.
