Blue Origin erupts in a massive fireball during testing, days after a SpaceX Starship explosion.
Turns out the future looks a lot messier up close.
H. John Tran
One of the biggest promises of the 2024 election was lower prices.
Today, inflation hit 4.2% and Trump responded:
“I love the inflation.”
When leaders can’t solve a problem, they often redefine it.
For the first time in history, a human has received a therapy designed to reverse aging.
Not wrinkles.
Not symptoms.
Aging itself.
If it works, medicine just entered a completely new era.
OpenAI wants the government to own part of the company.
Not regulate it.
Own it.
Companies spend billions trying to keep governments out.
So why invite Washington in?
Social Security isn’t going bankrupt.
But the trust fund’s projected depletion date just moved up again.
2033 became 2032.
Washington has known this was coming for decades.
The problem isn’t that nobody saw it.
The problem is everybody did.
Google used to help people find information.
Now more of the internet is AI-generated content.
And when AI learns from AI, bad information doesn’t disappear.
It spreads.
The Trump $250 bill story is back.
Living people aren’t allowed on U.S. currency under current law.
Congress would have to change that first.
That’s why this debate is bigger than a $250 bill.
The AI race isn’t about models anymore.
It’s about electricity.
Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta are scrambling for power.
AI didn’t hit a money problem.
It hit a physics problem.
Amazon is refunding Prime members after a $2.5 billion FTC settlement.
The $51 refund isn’t the real story.
The real story is companies learned that confusion could be a business model.
U.S. debt just crossed $39 trillion.
The interest alone now rivals education and military spending combined.
At that point, debt isn’t just a number.
It starts making decisions.
