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SpaceX made history Friday with its Nasdaq debut, landing the company at a two trillion dollar market cap and making it the sixth most valuable firm in the United States. That's a staggering ascent for a company that once carried just a ten percent chance of survival, and one that still generates a fraction of the revenue that tech's megacaps command. The market is pricing in the future, not the present.
Shifting to consumer dynamics, and the Federal Reserve has a problem money can't easily fix. Wealthy Americans are spending freely on what analysts are calling unapologetic luxury, and that sustained demand at the top of the income ladder is keeping price pressure alive across the broader economy. When high-end spending doesn't slow, it complicates the Fed's ability to declare victory on inflation, and everyday consumers feel that in the cost of ordinary goods.
Closer to home for many buyers, San Francisco's housing market is delivering a brutal lesson in what the AI boom looks like on the ground. One prospective buyer raised her budget from one point two million to one point five million dollars, and is still getting outbid. Homes are clearing well above asking, and the buyers winning those deals are increasingly tied to the technology industry's explosive wealth creation.
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