Anne Applebaum

I think that's true.

Right.

So the cryptography track was something I started in.

This is regarding our previous conversation.

I started it a few months ago just because I felt like there were all these news stories that flashed by, you know, people being pardoned after making donations to the president's cryptocurrency fund or something.

or regulation being lifted or regulation not being enforced.

And I just felt like someone should keep track of it somewhere.

And so I started doing it.

And it actually appears on a Johns Hopkins website as well.

The Agora Institute also publishes.

They even created a little graphic so you can track it and click on it.

I mean, I don't know how many people look at it or use it, but I'm hoping like at least historians of the future will be able to say that somebody was paying attention.

And there are really two or three important shifts.

I mean,

One of them is this one that doesn't get attention I just mentioned, which is it's not just that the Trump administration is making money for itself or it's, you know, Trump companies are benefiting from deals with the Saudis or investments in Vietnam.

It's also that this administration is...

either refusing to enforce laws made in the past or is actively preventing new laws from being made.

So laws designed to prevent the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, for example, or laws designed to regulate the cryptocurrency industry so that ordinary people wouldn't be ripped off.

You know, all kinds of regulation that's designed

mostly designed to benefit ordinary Americans and make sure that our system isn't corrupt and that people aren't ripped off by U.S.