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Max Chafkin

New York

writer for @BW and @technology. Some podcasts. Author of THE CONTRARIAN. Worse half to @lagorio. Email: m at maxchafkin dot com.

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  • Američani si ne morejo privoščiti, da bi ignorirali Muska

    1 week ago | si.bloombergadria.com | Max Chafkin

    Leta 1912 so župljani iz nekaj cerkvenih skupnosti v Columbusu v Ohiu s skupnimi sredstvi iz lastnih žepov ustanovili dobrodelno organizacijo za brezplačno pomoč revnim.

  • New Books on the High-Tech Military-Industrial Complex

    2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Max Chafkin

    Experts tell the stories of entrepreneurs and executives who have inched closer and closer to their governments. Credit Credit... By Daniel Jurman How, exactly, did Donald Trump win over the technology industry?

  • Tesla’s ‘Headwinds’ Come From Elon Musk and Unpopular DOGE Cuts

    3 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Max Chafkin

    Elon Musk is a key figure in the economic environment that’s punishing sales. Plus: India’s car tariffs are under pressure. Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday tried to appease investors worried about its poor performance by saying he’s pulling back from government work. But as Businessweek senior reporter Max Chafkin writes today, his ties to Donald Trump and his unpopular policies can’t be cut that easily.

  • The Real Mastermind Behind Trump’s Imperial Presidency

    3 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Max Chafkin

    But the following day, it became clear to Farman that her adversary wasn’t Musk, or any engineers who might have doused themselves with Axe’s unique eau de middle school. She was really up against Russell Vought, the Trump loyalist who’d just been named director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as well as acting director of the CFPB. Farman hadn’t heard of Vought before he became CFPB director, which is pretty much how Vought likes it.

  • A MAGA-Backed AI Health-Care Unicorn Attracts an Unlikely Coalition

    4 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Max Chafkin

    Chapter co-founders Cobi Blumenfeld-Gantz and Vivek Ramaswamy, and investor Peter Thiel. (Bloomberg Businessweek) -- In late 2023, Cobi Blumenfeld-Gantz testified at a Senate Finance Committee hearing about how health insurance brokers target elderly Americans. “The Medicare enrollment and navigation process is broken,” Blumenfeld-Gantz told the committee.

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