Weekend News

Sunday Reads: SpaceX’s Sky-High Valuations Meet Reality, Crypto Sanctions, and the Surveillance State

Barry Ritholtz’s Sunday Reads surveys a cross-section of policy and market tensions—from SpaceX’s lofty market value vs. profitability risks, to crypto-enabled sanctions evasion, rising surveillance via license-plate readers, questions about civility and institutional corruption, and public-health concerns around measles outbreaks—plus coverage of media/political dynamics (Bari Weiss at CBS, Olivia Rodrigo’s activism) and debates over the future of reading.