The administration’s portfolio of direct and indirect investments now numbers 30 public companies and is valued at about $27 billion. Not all of Trump’s deals have involved outright grants of equity. Then there are the deals Trump cut with chipmakers Nvidia and AMD. As I reported at the time of the Intel investment, the government’s taking an equity stake in a public company isn’t unprecedented. The post The Trump administration’s investments in corporate stocks raise fears of ‘crony capitalism’ appeared first on Los Angeles Times.