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Edward Luce

Why Musk’s waste cutting is all about making money

The world’s richest man is taking a torch to the American state on behalf of Donald Trump, but also to remove impediments to his business interests.

What is a good way of reducing plane crashes? Obviously do not fire air safety experts and instil paranoia in those who remain.

Yet that is what Elon Musk is doing to the Federal Aviation Administration three weeks after America’s deadliest air collision in years. His team is moving fast to break things, as though Washington were an app.

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Edward Luce is the Washington columnist and commentator for the Financial Times. He writes about American politics and the economy.

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