In The Tao of Physics, perhaps the finest popular novel on parallels between modern physics and “Eastern mysticism”, author Michiko Kaku sums up the dichotomy by stating: “Socrates in Greece made the famous statement ‘I know that I know nothing,’ and Lao Tzu in China said, ‘Not knowing that one knows is best.’” The two […]
File photo of US President Donald Trump and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk (Pic credit: AP) Tech billionaire and DOGE head Elon Musk made direct appeals to US President Donald Trump to reverse sweeping tariffs over the past weekend. According to a report in Washington Post, which cited sources, Musk’s efforts were unsuccessful.Highest-profile disagreement […]
German minister says Elon Musk’s opposition to Trump’s tariffs a sign of weakness and fear. Germany’s economy minister Robert Habeck reacted to Elon Musk’s zero tariff statement and said he should first go to his president and talk about zero tariff first. “If he has something to say, he should go to his president and […]
On April 5, Saturday Night Live opened with James Austin Johnson’s Donald Trump standing at a podium, selling the American public on his latest economic strategy: tariffs, or as he calls them, “short for terrific idea.” The sketch was inspired by Trump’s real-life April 2 press conference, where he used a baffling chart to explain […]
File photo: US Senator Bernie Sanders (Picture credit: AP) US Senator Bernie Sanders has intensified his criticism of America’s political and economic system, warning that the United States is moving “rapidly toward oligarchy” and calling it a “pseudo-democracy” in which billionaires wield disproportionate power over governance. At 83, Sanders is still drawing massive crowds to […]
Tech mogul Elon Musk has expressed hopes for a zero-tariff trade zone between the United States and Europe, just days after US President Donald Trump imposed sweeping new tariffs, including a 20 per cent levy on European Union goods.Speaking via videoconference hosted by Italy’s far-right League party in Florence on Saturday, Musk said he hoped […]
Elon Musk’s government stint is nearing an end, according to reports. President Donald Trump was utterly unhappy when he got to know that Elon Musk would be briefed on secret plans for a potential war with China at the Pentagon, Wall Street Journal reported taking a look back at Elon Musk’s ‘shock-and-awe’ months in the […]
Elon Musk slams key Trump adviser Peter Navarro amid tariff turmoil. Elon Musk, who lost billions in the market crash triggered by Donald Trump’s tariff, mostly maintained silence on the issue, but on Saturday, he did not mince his words for Trump’s close economic adviser Peter Navarro. Navarro was in favor of strict tariffs though […]
Tesla bore the brunt of Elon Musk’s interference in Trump administration as protesters targeted Tesla. Elon Musk’s Tesla has received the hardest blow in the last few weeks as a global protest erupted against the vehicle brand while the target of the protesters is Elon Musk, owing to his overarching influence over the US government. […]
“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”No one lived that paradox quite like Elon Musk. For the better part of a year, Musk couldn’t stop winning. He helped install a president, muscled his way into the Cabinet via a meme-laced department called DOGE, bought Twitter just to torch it […]
