How to invest like a MAGA bigwig
Cannabis, crypto or half of North Dakota?
When the 24 cabinet secretaries and top-level officials in Donald Trump’s new government assemble, they will form one of the wealthiest administrations in history. Whether they are the very wealthiest is impossible to say, since official disclosures top out at “over $50m”—a pittance for some of the assembled. But such disclosures are helpful in another way: they shine a light on the widely varying investment strategies of MAGA luminaries, and thus their widely varying outlooks on the world.
This article appeared in the Finance & economics section of the print edition under the headline “Cannabis or crypto?”
From the February 8th 2025 edition
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