Golden Age | Elon Economy & Texas

Keep the team that built this company. Tesla's board is asking shareholders to re-elect Elon Musk, Robyn Denholm and JB Straubel. Tesla passed 10 million vehicles and $100 billion in revenue. Optimus and Cybercab are next. Vote by December 3.

Tech investors panicked too fast today. Nasdaq dropped 2.86% and Intel lost 28.6% on AI spending worries. Still, US GDP grew 3.4%. One bad day is not a plan change for your 401k. Not financial advice.

A rocket town picking Texas-made trucks makes total sense. Starbase just rolled out its first two Cybertruck police units. Ten more are on the way, with options for 20 more patrol trucks. Local builds belong on these roads.

The safety data clearly favors the software. Tesla FSD averages one major crash every 6 million miles, across 9.48 billion miles. The US average is about 660,000. That is roughly nine times safer. So why does every Tesla crash still make the headline?

Starlink pricing by local demand is fair, but only if you watch your bill. In parts of Missouri, the Max plan goes from $130 to $156 on November 30. Kansas City drops to $117. Open that Starlink email. If you don't need Max, the $55 or $85 plan may do.

Safer Texas streets start with real enforcement. ICE arrested 4,170 illegal immigrants across Texas in ten days. More than 60% had criminal records, including murder and sexual assault. President Trump promised this. It is what voters asked for.

SpaceX is now an AI company that also flies rockets. Q3 revenue hit $14.6 billion, up 161%, with $4.4 billion in profit. Starlink brought in $5.25 billion and launch $1.77 billion. AI compute alone pulled in $7.56 billion.

An exchange is not a bank vault. Binance just proved it. Hackers took about $6.3 billion, likely the biggest crypto theft ever. About $3 billion is frozen, and Binance says it will cover all losses. Withdrawals are paused. Coins you hold for years belong in your own wallet.

The real economy is beating the stock screen. US GDP grew at a 3.4% pace in Q3, above the 3.2% forecast. Jobless claims dropped to 194,000. Nasdaq futures still fell over 2% overnight on weak tech earnings. Watch today's open.

A 98-year-old man just bought his first Tesla Model Y. He uses Full Self-Driving and watched it brake for a chipmunk. About 75% of new North American buyers reportedly add the $99/month FSD plan. If a car can brake for a chipmunk, why must our parents give up their keys?

New Tesla Roadster prototypes are out in California. After the unveiling in McGregor, Texas, the cars stopped by the Petersen Museum and parked under a Falcon 9 at SpaceX in Hawthorne. The road version is planned for 2028. Zero to sixty in under 1.6 seconds.

Texas early voting just topped five million ballots. President Trump rallied here with Ted Cruz and Ken Paxton on border security. Turnout is strong. Bring a photo ID and check your polling place. Friday is the last early voting day.

Tesla staff are training Optimus robots with sensor rigs. Workers wear cameras to record moves from factory jobs to making lunch. Fremont has started building early units, and Texas is getting a bigger line. Watch for first customer deliveries, aimed for 2027.

A mother in rural Colombia was two days by horseback from help. A doctor used a portable Starlink dish to call a specialist, and she got to a hospital in time. Mom and baby are safe. This is what satellite internet was made for.

People claim rent takes more work in Dallas than LA. Texas has zero state income tax, and thousands of families move here from California each year. A typical home is about $303,000 in Texas. In California it's $776,000.

The Fed kept interest rates steady. Fed chair Kevin Warsh says growth stays strong, even with two votes for a hike. The S&P 500 edged up to 7,743.98 while Bitcoin dropped under $80,000. Watch today for the new PCE inflation data. Not advice.

Cell service might look a lot different soon. Verizon's CEO says Starlink would need $300-500 billion and years to compete in cities. Musk says two or three years. Brazil just got Starlink straight to phones. Rural Texas needs better options. Who do you believe?

More flood relief is heading to the Texas Hill Country. President Trump announced new FEMA aid at his Corpus Christi rally, after Cruz and Paxton asked for help for families rebuilding from the July floods. Do you know folks out there still fixing up their homes?

United is putting Starlink on every plane. Flyers started switching flights just to get it. 661 planes have it now, United adds about three a day, and the whole fleet should be done by the end of 2027. Does fast plane Wi-Fi change how you book?

Tesla stock hit about $407 this week, the highest since July. Talk of a SpaceX merger helped, though nothing is agreed yet. Barclays upgraded it with a $450 target after Q3 showed $45 billion in cash. Could a merger actually happen? Not advice.