While DOGE inflates its monetary impact, Tesla heads for a crash. And Twitter has lost most of its value. Is Musk just bad at business?

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency is running a playbook that is strikingly similar to his takeover of X, formerly Twitter, in San Francisco.

Elon Musk is a real quantitative guy, it would seem. He wants lots of the things he wants: companies, money, children with his genetic signature. And, in most people’s opinion, 14 publicly known children is a lot of children.

Do you sometimes refer to X by its old name, Twitter? That's okay. Even Elon Musk, the man who changed Twitter's name to X, still occasionally refers to

Elon Musk's SpaceX Starship rocket exploded shortly after taking off in Texas, resulting in the grounding of flights in Florida.

Mr. Musk uses online slang to marshal his 200 million social media followers in support of his efforts to gut the federal government. But he might be reaching his limits.