Trump’s new Truth Social plan: pay me $100K

What you'll learn

• 1 (00:01) **The Plan: Pay for Early Access to Trump’s Truth Social Posts** - The hosts introduce a new subscription service allowing users to pay up to $100,000 for millisecond-early access to President Trump’s posts on Truth Social, which often contain market-moving information.
• 2 (02:36) **Evidence of Market-Moving Posts** - The hosts detail a pitch sheet from Truth Social that highlights 10 posts documented as market-moving, including one from last year that added $4.8 trillion to U.S. stocks.
• 3 (03:28) **Is This Corruption? A Constitutional Expert Weighs In** - The hosts call Elizabeth Wydra, president of the Constitutional Accountability Center, who argues the plan looks like corruption because it puts the president’s personal financial gain ahead of national interests.
• 4 (04:07) **Is It Legal? The Gap Between Norms and Law** - Wydra explains that while the plan appears corrupt, it is not clearly illegal, as legal structures have not caught up with Trump’s norm-breaking behavior.
• 5 (05:38) **Is Corruption Bad for Growth? An Economist’s View** - The hosts bring in Ray Fisman, an economist at Boston University and co-author of the book *Corruption: What Everyone Needs to Know*, to evaluate the economic impact.
• 6 (06:43) **The Problem of Endogenous Red Tape** - Fisman rejects the red-tape argument, explaining that officials often create more barriers to increase their opportunities to demand bribes, a phenomenon called “endogenous red tape.”
• 7 (07:54) **The China Anomaly and the UK Warning** - Fisman dismisses the China example as an anomaly, noting that for every China, there are dozens of countries like Sudan and Venezuela where high corruption leads to low incomes.

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