Honda and Nissan took their first historic steps toward merging to create a new force in the world’s automotive industry, as aggressive competition from China forces legacy carmakers to rethink their business models. Elon Musk calls the Federal Reserve ‘absurdly overstaffed’, as he prepares to lead a new agency aimed at making the US government more efficient, with a goal of $2 trillion in spending cuts.
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