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The government picks winners two ways. Only one shows up in the record.
The CHIPS Act is a government finger on the market anyone can look up -- named recipients, filed with Congress. The CIA's venture arm, In-Q-Tel, works the opposite way: structured as a nonprofit since 1999, it has made roughly 325 investments, and more than 100 were never announced.
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3.7 Million Americans Hold a Security Clearance. The Salary Premium Is Bigger Than Most Degrees.
Roughly 3.7 million Americans hold a security clearance, and the salary premium is real and large: professionals with a Top Secret/SCI cl...
Wyoming Is the Least Populated State in the Country. Its Part-Time Legislature Wrote the Crypto Banking Rules Congress Still Hasn't.
Wyoming's part-time, 90-member legislature has passed more blockchain and digital-asset laws since 2018 than any other state or Congress ...
Robert Bork Rewrote Antitrust Law in 1978. United Now Controls 70% of Dulles, and the Nearest Real Choice Is a Drive to Another Airport.
Friedman's 1970 case for shareholder profit-maximization came with a condition everyone quotes half of: profit-seeking only serves the pu...
A Company Most Americans Have Never Heard of Stores the Medical Records of 280 Million People. It's on a 1,100-Acre Wisconsin Campus.
Epic Systems has never gone public and rarely talks to the press, but it holds the medical records of more than 280 million people -- ove...
The Same Ohio Land That Enriched Uranium for the Cold War Is Becoming a 10-Gigawatt AI Data Center — While Cleanup From the Last Use Is Still Underway.
The Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant enriched uranium for the Cold War nuclear arsenal from 1954 until 2001. Cleanup is still underway ...
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