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TBL Thinks: JPMorgan to Invest $1.5T In US Companies

Chandni Bhatia and Nik Bhatia

Oct 15

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JPMorgan Opens Its Vault

JP Morgan announced today that it plans to facilitate $1.5 trillion in investments in US companies deemed “critical to national economic security and resiliency” over the next 10 years as part of an initiative from the bank to protect the American economy as trade tensions escalate. The $1.5 trillion figure surprised us a bit after we first learned of a mere $10 billion of JP Morgan’s own capital being dedicated to acquire stakes in companies in various sectors of national importance such as defense contractors, rare earth mineral manufacturing, robotics, aerospace, and AI. A representative of the company stated that the bank could invest more than $10B depending on the success of the strategy, but the implications of the trillion—with a “T”—in lending capacity dropped our jaws. The bank plans to invest in companies primarily based in the US, leading us to immediately associate this move with a “get in line with Trump” strategy, currently followed in some ways by Jensen Huang of Nvidia, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, and Tim Cook of Apple. The bank, however, did not acknowledge influence from the Trump administration.

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