The Globe’s Larry Edelman is right: Wall Street investors are a rare check-and-balance against Trump policies should the economy turn south. But we’re talking about investors here, not necessarily individual corporations and capitalists. We know where they stand. … Side note: I can’t get Peggy Noonan’s brilliant Godfather II image out of mind:

“As I watched (the tech titans) at the inauguration I abstracted. It was like Elon is passing the solid gold phone to Mark Zuckerberg, who nods and passes it to Jeff Bezos, who passes it to Sam Altman, who marvels at its weight and shine.”