💬 Opinion Jun 26, 2026 · Zachary Groz

The War of Capital

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The War of Capital
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As startups, they were financed by federal grants and bailed out with federal loans. As fledgling private companies, they soaked up state and local tax credits and cash subsidies to become dominant market actors. After capturing huge swaths of the market, pumping money into elections, and lobbying concessions out of lawmakers and agencies, they reinvented themselves as the federal government’s contractors of choice. Now, as the Prospect has been reporting the past month, Elon Musk’s $2 trillion

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