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Parsing two Trump appointees

Parsing two Trump appointees

Update: 2024-12-05
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The value of bitcoin has soared in the past month, with bets on an incoming crypto-friendly presidential administration. There’s news that president-elect Donald Trump plans to appoint a crypto-friendly chair for the Securities and Exchange Commission: Paul Atkins. Trump has also announced his pick to head the IRS: Missouri’s Billy Long. What should we make of these two appointment choices? We discuss. Also: a boiling point in the U.S. and China’s feud over semiconductor chips.

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Parsing two Trump appointees

Parsing two Trump appointees

Marketplace / David Brancaccio and Leanna Byrne