{"id":959095,"date":"2025-09-03T09:20:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T03:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=959095"},"modified":"2025-09-03T10:16:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T04:46:01","slug":"the-intel-stake-may-be-trumps-corrupt-spin-on-industrial-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/03\/the-intel-stake-may-be-trumps-corrupt-spin-on-industrial-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Intel stake may be Trump&#8217;s corrupt spin on industrial policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Donald Trump administration\u2019s announced purchase of just under 10% of Intel, the largest semiconductor company in the US, isn\u2019t likely to be a one-off: More investments in other semiconductor firms are apparently to come. And the decision follows a Defense Department deal that made it the largest shareholder in a rare-earth mining and processing firm. <\/p>\n<p>These actions have opened an overdue debate about whether and when the government should use investment dollars as a way to regulate. Commentators have sensibly raised hard questions about whether taking a stake in Intel effectively serves US interests. But the Trump administration\u2019s move raises bigger issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Donald Trump administration\u2019s announced purchase of just under 10% of Intel, the largest semiconductor company in the US, isn\u2019t likely to be a one-off: More investments in other semiconductor firms are apparently to come. And the decision follows a Defense Department deal that made it the largest shareholder in a rare-earth mining and processing firm. These actions have opened an overdue debate about whether and when the government should use investment dollars as a way to regulate. Commentators have sensibly raised hard questions about whether taking a stake in Intel effectively serves US interests. But the Trump administration\u2019s move [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-959095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}