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Comment by cyanydeez | original | Lutnick Pushed to Weaken Chip Rules That Overlap with His Family Business
[−]cyanydeez · 2026-11-15 Sun 13:40 UTC · link
I bet if you examine those other businesses, they too would "overlap" with his positions.

But you know, cherry pick what you dont want to hear.

[−]sokoloff · 2026-11-15 Sun 16:29 UTC · link
The cherry-picking is the exact problem.

Is it corruption when a Commerce recommendation benefits a Cantor client and, I guess, incompetent corruption when it instead benefits clients of Piper Sandler, Stifel, and Jefferies? Or it all Commerce working to further the goals of the country?

If Commerce helps 1000 companies, it's not a problem if Cantor has 5% of the overall market as clients and 4-6% of the companies helped are Cantor clients.

There may very well be corruption here; this article doesn't arrive in the neighborhood of convincing me (I consider myself neither red nor blue, but mostly disgusted with the outcome of the two party system that we seem stuck with.)