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The State Buys In

1 bull · 3 bear · exact words, dated and sourced

What the people who move markets are saying about this, in their own words. These are views on the record, not scored bets: when a call here grows a number and a deadline, it moves to the scoreboard. Newest first.

Bear 2026-07-06

“The biggest bailout in corporate history was about to happen… the bailout of Nadella, Altman, Dario Amodei, and it would be dressed up as investment or growth. It's not, it's a bailout”

Scott Galloway · NYU Stern / Prof G Media · Prof G Markets

Bear 2026-07-03

“Intel is owned probably right now 9.9% by the federal government… I guess what I'm worried about is the cronyism” - worried state stakes breed cronyism

Anthony Scaramucci · SkyBridge Capital · Full Signal interview

Bull 2026-07-02

“Every child born… will get an investment account at birth, seeded with $1,000 in the S&P 500” - Trump Accounts live Jul 4; champions broad ownership

Brad Gerstner · Altimeter Capital · CNBC

Bear 2026-06

“Nearly $3 trillion that was about to flow to Wall Street… that's gone” - Gulf money withdrawn; sees state-capital entanglement as fragility

Yanis Varoufakis · DiEM25 / fmr. Greek FinMin · interview

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