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The One With Matt Levine and Mary Childs

The Compound and Friends

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Elon Musk's DM'd You?

There seemed to be two ways that Elon Musk could get out of the Twitter deal at the end. One was that like his banks would not finance it, which seemed very unlikely. The other was that the US government would block the deal because they worried that it was a national security risk. But he also had lunch with the FT and they were like, what do you think about China? And he's like, I think China should own Taiwan. It's just like bizarre stuff.

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