Kai/Kyle Risdell

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Marketplace · Manufacturing boomed in July. Thank all that AI money · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

And then you've got the Department of Commerce and the Department of Defense or Department of War, which are

may have the authority to do this, but this is an issue that would certainly benefit from Congress providing some more clarity.

A couple of specifics here.

First of all, these are both publicly traded and privately held companies, yes?

That's right.

In terms of number, we've seen more private companies so far getting these stakes, and we haven't yet seen any of those investments go public, but that's also something we could see in the months and years to come.

And them being privately held just to dig in a little bit and get a little weedy means we don't have a great deal of insight.

We, the American public who owns these parts of these companies, we don't have a lot of insight into their financials and their performance, right?

Right.

And so in these cases, we are really relying on the government and the companies themselves to share with us details about what has been agreed to and essentially what the deal is.

And how's that working out, them sharing that info?

Well, we're doing the best we can in terms of collecting what's out there, but it's a little bit like investigative work, and I assume that we will get more details in the future as some of these announcements continue to mature.

Right.

One more thing just on the historical record.

$27 billion is nominally a lot of money, but historically speaking, and I'm thinking of the TARP here specifically, which was $700 billion, $27 billion is not all that much money.

That's right.

And this is in the scheme of the U.S.

economy.

If you look at just the volume of private deals that are being done in the U.S., we're on track this year that that amount will exceed probably a trillion dollars.

So it's a drop in the bucket.

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