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10 Sunday Reads
The Big Picture • • business
Key Points:
- SpaceX’s $350 billion valuation reflects a divide between optimistic retail investors and skeptical professional debt investors, highlighting tensions between its startup-like governance and Wall Street’s valuation methods.
- Rogue nations used cryptocurrencies to evade sanctions, handling $100 billion in 2025 to finance terrorism and weapons, revealing a large and growing crypto-based workaround economy.
- Flock Safety’s widespread deployment of license plate readers across the U.S. has raised privacy concerns, with communities beginning to push back against the expansion of surveillance technologies.
- Measles outbreaks in the U.S. are becoming harder to control due to declining vaccination rates and a weakened public health infrastructure, while some parents rejecting newborn Vitamin K shots have led to severe bleeding cases in infants.
- The Supreme Court is argued to be structurally undermining American democracy, not through individual decisions but by altering the institutional relationship between democracy and corruption.
