Soaring U.S. debt and projections that put it at astronomical levels in the coming years have set off increasing panic, though the precise level that sparks a crisis is unknown.…
Remember the legal brawl CEO Elon Musk faced over his $56 billion moonshot pay package at Tesla? As SpaceX prepares to go public in a $75 billion initial public offering…
The pending SpaceX IPO is generating lots of buzz by introducing the most valuable enterprise of all time at an expected market cap of $1.75 trillion. Clearly, that gigantic number…
The closure of the Strait continues to be treated mainly as an energy shock. But the longer it lasts, the greater the risk that today’s disruption becomes tomorrow’s harvest failure…
The strangest political convergence of 2026 just got stranger. Donald Trump said Friday that the U.S. government may take direct equity stakes in AI giants like OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI…
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Taylor Swift accidentally ran a cleaner economic‑impact experiment than the World Cup—and she did it at the right scale. When her Eras Tour hit Philadelphia in May 2023, the Federal…
Before MacKenzie Scott signed the Giving Pledge and started on her path to give away her $36 billion net worth, she went looking for a paragraph in a book she’d…
Social Security is barreling toward a 24% across-the-board benefit cut in 2032 that would slash roughly $500 a month from the average retiree’s check — a hit that totals about…