SpaceX Is Basically a Huge Meme Stock
The company may be losing money, but it will soon be the most expensive big stock in the market.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Harun Ozalp / Anadolu / Getty. Crypto Is a Victim of Its Own Success
Bitcoin, which has been plummeting in value, has come to feel less like a rebel upstart, more like an eccentric uncle.
Illustration by The Atlantic Welfare Fraud Is a Problem—For Democrats
Safeguarding the social safety net is essential for keeping it.
Illustration by Akshita Chandra / The Atlantic A Very Trumpian Plan to Close the Wealth Gap
Despite the bombast, the impact of Trump Accounts on the lives of American kids will be trivial.
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Having promised to lower living costs, the president seems keen to make American life more expensive.
Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic. Sources: Ron Sachs / CNP / Bloomberg / Getty; Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty. Nexstar and Sinclair Lost Their Game of Chicken
Broadcast-media companies may be growing, but they still couldn’t afford to reject Jimmy Kimmel forever.
Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic. Sources: Randy Holmes / Disney / Getty; Pituk Loonhong / Getty. What’s Holding Trump Back From Firing Powell
The president wants to get rid of the Fed chair—if the markets will let him. We all have to hope he won’t gamble on that.
Photo-illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Kent Nishimura / Getty; Dmytro Synelnychenko; Getty; Richard Sharrocks / Getty; Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty. Trump’s Only-Okay Economy
He hasn’t crashed it, but he hasn’t made it great either. That’s a problem.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Getty. The Impending Doom of Trump’s Trade War
The uncertainty is doing plenty of economic damage. He may make things much worse.
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How Jensen Huang built Nvidia into a nearly $3 trillion business
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