Elon Musk just paid $17 billion for spectrum licenses, most experts call worthless, 100 times the going rate. On paper, the deal looks insane. Through Washington’s lens, it’s the smartest move SpaceX has ever made.

A single $5 million ‘Gold Card’ could raise more in a year than EB-5 did in a decade—and that’s just Phase One. Pair it with a 15 % flat corporate tax, a $100 K talent fast-track, and $50 K fines for illegal hires, and America stops managing decline and starts monetizing its magnetism.

Shares of The Metals Company have rocketed 580 % on a single, audacious bet: that U.S. regulators will green-light the world’s first commercial raid on 4 000-metre-deep ‘battery rocks’ packed with nickel, cobalt and copper