You're a computer chip company. The government now owns a piece of you. So how do you influence this owner?

Four key tools Intel has at its disposal.

Is the United States entering an age of industrial nationalization?

No, not yet, at least not in some large-scale sense.

But one particular development has many capitalists concerned.

Writing in OpenSecrets, I explain:

As the U.S. government obtains a 10 percent stake in Intel, the American computer chip manufacturer finds itself in the awkward position …