Introduction Elon Musk has acquired the assets of APR Energy, a Jacksonville, Florida company that deploys trailer-mounted gas turbines on accelerated timelines. Neither Musk nor APR announced the transaction. It surfaced instead through two regulatory filings — a Federal Trade Commission early termination notice dated May 14, 2026, and a Securities and Exchange Commission disclosure from a minority stakeholder filed...

Introduction On July 29, 2003, two U.S. senators walked into a press conference and ended a Pentagon research program in a single news cycle. The program, called the Policy Analysis Market, would have let a small pool of registered traders buy and sell contracts on political and economic events in the Middle East. Within about 24 hours of the press...

Introduction Ninety-nine days remain before the November 3 general election, and the ballot voters will see in most of the country is not finished being written. The 2026 primary season opened March 3 in Texas and North Carolina and does not close until September 15 in Delaware. Between now and then, voters in roughly a dozen and a half states...