Trump ‘chickens out’ again + Elon’s road to $1,000,000,000,000

Friday Headlines:

• Pauline Hanson says $2.6m donations legit after PM casts doubt
• Donald Trump calls off strikes on Iran
• El Niño returns, likely to bring extreme weather to Australia
• Government says it won’t repeat the mistakes of the resource boom with AI
• FIFA World Cup kicks off in Mexico

Deep Dive: The world could see its first trillionaire soon, as Elon Musk’s rocket company, SpaceX, goes public. If the SpaceX public offering goes to plan, then Musk could increase his personal fortune by hundreds of billions of US dollars in just a few days.

How did Musk get so filthy rich? And how should we think about one individual controlling a trillion US dollars, and the unique power that type of wealth confers?

In this episode The Briefing, Chris Spyrou is joined by Tom Maloney - an editor and wealth reporter at Bloomberg in New York to unpack Musk’s path to a trillion and how he conquered capitalism.

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