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Dead on the Fourth of July
DOGE shut down on July 4, exactly as scheduled. Musk's efficiency department promised two trillion dollars in savings, delivered a rounding error, and destroyed USAID on the way through. The projected bill is 14 million lives by 2030. Five weeks before the fireworks, the man with the chainsaw became the world's first trillionaire. -
How to Crash the Price of Saving Lives
Mark Cuban already proved you can crash the price of generic drugs. The interesting question is what a billionaire could do with the same playbook and a target list. -
Who Actually Benefits When Nepal Sells Hydro to Silicon Valley?
Nepal is being courted for green compute. Ireland tried it first. Here is what saying yes to multinationals actually looks like. -
Khalti Says Stripe. Stripe Says Nothing. Nobody Knows the Fees.
Khalti launched international payments powered by Stripe. Stripe has no public announcement about Nepal and doesn't list it as a supported country. The fees aren't published anywhere. Freelancers are doing the math in group chats. -
Nepal Can Now Pay for Software. It Still Cannot Sell It.
NRB just increased the foreign currency prepaid card limit from USD 500 to USD 3,000 per year. For the two-person startup in a bedroom in Lalitpur, that changes everything. Almost.
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