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'Delusional': Elon Musk's latest vow bashed as pie in the sky by senators of both parties
Musk’s Fantasy Is Not a Retirement PlanA Prediction From the Powerful, Not the WiseElon Musk is floating the idea that AI will make retirement accounts obsolete, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was foolish enough to echo it. Senators of both parties mostly laughed it off. That is the useful part of the story. The more important part is that a man with no formal federal post still has enough influence in the Trump orbit to drag the Treasury Secretary into public repetition of his economic hallucinations.This is not a debate about retirement policy. It is an exhibition of who gets to…
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