What Elon Musk’s $100 billion bid for OpenAI is really all about
Somehow, in between running multiple companies, gutting the federal bureaucracy, apparently cheating at video games and being a dad to at least 11 children, [I dunno… this all feels unnecessary and ...
Markets are betting Trump’s bark is worse than his bite. Consumers are not
The Street is hardly a reliable barometer of our long-term economic health. And just because markets are bored of the tariff rhetoric doesn’t mean the danger isn’t real.
Corporate America is one of the few institutions that could stand up to Musk. It won’t
This is how much Corporate America loves lower taxes: There’s a guy holding a knife to the neck of the federal institutions that ensure businesses can thrive, and not one CEO or lobbying group is ...
The Potomac crash highlights the flaws of Trump’s ‘government as a business’ playbook
It’s one of the more obviously flawed ideas embraced by both President Donald Trump and his right-hand man Elon Musk: That government should be run like a business.
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This is America: DC chaos and trade warmongering
A version of this story appeared in CNN Business’ Nightcap newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. New York CNN — The CEO commander-in-chief is no economist, nor is he a ...
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Elon Musk is crowning himself technoking of the federal government
A version of this story appeared in CNN Business’ Nightcap newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. New York CNN — Dear readers: Boy was I wrong. Back in August, as ...
Trump says America has ‘all the trees’ it needs. But fixing the housing crisis may mean depending on Canadian wood
While trees are bountiful in the US (we have 300 billion of them ), economists and homebuilders caution that America does not ...
No, Trump did not become an overnight ‘crypto billionaire’
President Donald Trump’s meme coin may be a textbook cash grab — not unlike his $60 made-in-China Bibles and his $400 gold ...
OpenAI now wants to make DeepSeek look like the villain
The DeepSeek drama may have been briefly eclipsed by, you know, everything in Washington (which, if you can believe it, got even crazier Wednesday). But rest assured that over in Silicon Valley, there ...