“There certainly are signs that Trump considers the government his to do with as he wishes to keep himself in wealth and power.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/march-24-2026?r=1j5iw&utm_medium=ios by @hcrichardson.bsky.social

March 24, 2026

This morning, economist Paul Krugman came right out and said it: “People close to Trump are trading based on national secrets.” Another word for that, he said, is “treason.” The evidence for such a claim is the sudden and isolated jump in trading volume in S&P 500 and oil futures about 15 minutes before Trump suddenly announced that the U.S.

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