Tyler Cowen

I'd give them their like A or A+.

So far, we'll see, right?

Yeah.

There's a number of issues here.

The first is Trump administration policy toward the FTC, I think, has not been wonderful.

They appointed someone who seems like would be more appropriate for a Democratic or more left-leaning administration.

But if you look at the people in the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the White House, they're excellent.

And there's always different forces in any administration.

But again, so far, so good.

I don't think they should continue the antitrust suit against Google.

That is looking like it's going against Google.

But that's not really the Trump administration.

That's the judiciary.

And that's been underway for quite some while.

So with Trump, it's always very hard to predict.

The lack of predictability, I would say, is itself a big problem.

But again, if you're looking for one area where it's good, that would be my pick.

You know, that restriction I favored when it was put in.

I'm now of the view that it has not proved useful.

And if you look at how many of those chips get sold, say, to Malaysia, which is not a top AI performer, one strongly suspects they end up going to China.