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⏩ FP! Week In Review, Briefly #36

Also: Key Up Wing and Down Wing news from the week that was

Jun 13 • James Pethokoukis

🚀 Elon Musk is a trillionaire. Why that's good news for all of us

'If more trillionaires emerge because AI, robots, clean energy, genetic editing, and space access become vastly cheaper and more capable, everyone…

Jun 12 • James Pethokoukis

☀️ Star power, almost within reach

Fusion energy is no longer a punchline. Whether it can become a business is another matter

Jun 11 • James Pethokoukis

✨🧚 What story is Fable telling about the state of AI?

The frontier keeps moving fast. The question is whether business is yet moving with it. Until it does, economic transformation is a just a fairytale

Jun 10 • James Pethokoukis

🛗 How to finance a space elevator

Let's talk about the "Space Value of Money," as outlined in a fascinating new paper

Jun 9 • James Pethokoukis

🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #35

Also: Key Up Wing and Down Wing news from the week that was

Jun 5 • James Pethokoukis

🚀 SpaceX and the economics of space

Cheaper rockets are only the beginning of the story

Jun 5 • James Pethokoukis

⤵️ The axis of US decline: anti-data center, anti-AI, anti-nuclear

Opposing one technology used to be enough; now the same activists line up against three at once

Jun 3 • James Pethokoukis

😵‍💫 AI anxiety and the 3+ confusions of Bernie Sanders

And I think I'm being generous here in my analysis

Jun 2 • James Pethokoukis

May 2026

🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #34

Also: Key Up Wing and Down Wing news from the week that was

May 30 • James Pethokoukis

🚀💥 A bad day for the American space program. There will be more. And that's OK

A Blue Origin rocket failed. On to the next launch

May 29 • James Pethokoukis

⤵️ Decline is still a choice

America's AI moment will be made or unmade by policy

May 28 • James Pethokoukis