GDP shock: Venture Capital's government bailout begins

I really dont understand why this article is waxing about long term economic-philospohical trends when the gdp decline is clearly due to tariffs. Like this is not a pattern, its bad government policy that did not have any guarantee of happening.

&quot;A new innovation model emerges where political connections matter more than business fundamentals.&quot;<p>There&#x27;s nothing new about this business model. It&#x27;s just shocking that anyone thinks this will produce better results.

Any sort of &quot;investing&quot; and &quot;wealth building&quot; makes sense only if the given economic agent is not in huge debt, or that debt is very cheap.<p>At current 4.50% borrowing costs ... I guess it might not be entirely stupid to just pile on investments instead of paying off the debt, especially if your plan is to keep the inflation well above 4.50%.<p>Now, what exactly would be the composition of such an &quot;investment&quot; is another story, and I&#x27;m afraid it&#x27;s not going to be entirely objective and fair.

If the whole VC world does start trying to live off of the US government, and specifically off of this sovereign wealth fund thing, then it actually seems unrealistically <i>optimistic</i> to think that connections with the traditional military&#x2F;intelligence&#x2F;national security establishment will be the connections to have.<p>Except for small, unusual elements, that&#x27;s all &quot;deep state&quot;. Definitely any parts that have any real, deep <i>expertise</i> would get sidelined as obstructionist fossils or whatever. They&#x27;re already purging the military officer corps to put in loyalists who will do the things MAGA wants without asking too many questions. And I&#x27;m sure they&#x27;re purging intelligence to put in people who not only do what they&#x27;re told, but say what the boss wants to hear.<p>The connections you&#x27;d need to have would be with Trump cronies and only with Trump cronies. I&#x27;m sure they have some Grand Vision(TM) to offer for where the money should end up.

<i>Unable to generate returns that attract private investment, they now seek capital that can&#x27;t walk away</i><p>The grift begins.

Article started with the GDPNow chart which is broken because of tariff front-running. Stopped reading there.

Prompt: write a long rant on US VCs aligning&#x2F;hunting alpha in Trumps America