Stocks going down you say? Not to worry, Uncle Sam will graciously buy your shares on the open market to keep them from dropping further.

Or the Intel setup, where the government simply bullies its way into an equity stake by reclassifying already agreed grant payments.

How long before treasury directly starts buying private shares in companies owned by the politically connected? This unsophisticated, banana republic grifting that Americans used to deride 3rd-world countries for.