Trump Accounts

A baby is born. The nurse checks the heartbeat. The parents count 10 tiny fingers and 10 tiny toes. Then something extraordinary happens: before that child can walk, talk, work, or pronounce the word "stock," $1,000 may already be invested in American capitalism. "Trump Accounts" takes readers inside one of America's boldest and most controversial economic experiments. Could giving babies an investment stake turn millions of children into future investors? Could ownership weaken the growing appeal of socialism among young Americans? And as artificial intelligence threatens to disrupt millions of jobs, could broader stock ownership become a shield against explosive inequality?

Joseph Ejike Ojih (Ph.D.) follows the money, politics, history, and controversy behind Trump Accounts-from the arbitrary birth-year cutoff and presidential branding to billionaire philanthropy, America's vast ownership gap, Britain's Child Trust Fund experiment, and the looming AI revolution. The politics are grubby. The name is divisive. The $1,000 is modest. But inside the dirt may be the seed of an idea powerful enough to reshape American capitalism forever.