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Opinions/Editorials See other Opinions/Editorials Articles Title: When government bureaucrats masquerade as financial savants, watch out
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Washington Post
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Published: Jul 24, 2023
Author: George F. Will
Post Date: 2023-07-24 23:55:58 by Charles_Byrd
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Get your ass to Pittsburgh, barked the man whose hand was on one of the many money spigots that are irrigating the Biden administrations industrial policy. The barker, as reported by the Wall Street Journal, was Jigar Shah, head of the Energy Departments Loan Programs Office whose lending capacity has been increased 10-fold, to $400 billion, by Congress. The person on the other end of the phone call, a business executive, obediently met Shah at a clean energy conference in Pittsburgh, and five months later had a $375 million LPO loan. Ford and its battery manufacturing partner have received from the LPO $9.2 billion that, presumably, private capital markets would not provide. If that is true, why is it true? Click for Full Text! Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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