Kyle Nowak

🧲 Several major US automakers could be forced to shut down some car production in the coming days or weeks if they can’t find workarounds to recent Chinese restrictions on rare-earth magnets, per new reports from the Wall Street Journal and NY Times.

"Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them."

–Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)

⚡️ Yesterday, Meta announced a deal with nuclear energy provider Constellation Energy to buy massive amounts of electricity over the next two-plus decades to fuel its AI ambitions.

“If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”

–John Wooden (1910-2010)

📉 Novo Nordisk, which briefly became Europe’s most valuable company in 2023 due to blockbuster weight-loss/diabetes drugs Ozempic and Wegovy, now finds itself with a rapidly slimming market share and stock price (-46% over the past year). 

🏢 More office space is being removed than added this year, shrinking America’s overall office footprint for the first time in 25+ years, according to new data from CBRE Group, the world's largest commercial real-estate services firm. 

❓ Our question to you: In general, do you support Elon Musk’s efforts as the leader of DOGE?

“Whatever you are, try to be a good one.”

–William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)

❓ Our question to you (long-form): What are your thoughts on the current situation regarding the Trump administration’s tariff plans?

🏛️ Elon Musk officially said goodbye to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) on Friday, when his 130-day legal tenure as a special government employee expired.

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

–T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)

Here are five stats from this past week that made our team go “whoa.” Hopefully you will, too.

🏛️ Yesterday afternoon, a federal appeals court temporarily paused a ruling, handed down by the Court of International Trade one day earlier, that had declared most of President Trump’s tariff plans to be illegal.

"An approximate answer to the right question is worth a great deal more than a precise answer to the wrong question."

–John Tukey (1915-2000)

⛽️ In recent months, US retail giants have accelerated their ongoing push into the auto fuel business, with new gas stations gradually popping up next to stores across the country.

❓ Our question to you: In your opinion, how should the US approach the Russia-Ukraine war?

"The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us."

–Voltaire (1694-1778)

🌍 President Trump is strongly considering new sanctions on Russia in the coming days as his frustration with Vladimir Putin over the war in Ukraine continues to mount, according to multiple reports.

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"Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood."

–Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)