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When FTX collapsed into bankruptcy in 2022, many customers never thought they'd see their money again. But FTX's assets have rebounded. WSJ’s Andrew Scurria unpacks why FTX will have more than enough money to fully repay customers and many creditors.



Further Reading:

- Crypto Exchange FTX Is the Rare Financial Blowup That Will Repay Victims in Full 



Further Listening:

- The Trial of Crypto’s Golden Boy 



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Before Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and Zepbound, there was Lotte Bjerre Knudsen.



In the 1990s, the young scientist at the Danish drug company Novo Nordisk was trying to unlock the key to a new technology for treating Type 2 diabetes. To her bosses, Lotte’s project, which focused on a hormone called GLP-1, looked like a distraction. 



But as Lotte fought to save her diabetes project from the chopping block, she couldn’t have imagined how much of an impact her breakthrough would have. Her work would pave the way for a hit drug called Ozempic. And it would unleash a new class of blockbuster drugs, pitting two companies in a race to become the world’s first trillion-dollar pharmaceutical company by market cap.



Listen to Part 1 of “Trillion Dollar Shot” now.



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WSJ’s Julie Wernau wanted to test a hypothesis: are there more mentally ill homeless people now, compared to before the pandemic? That question led her to Rob Dart. Once a successful lawyer, in 2022 he went into a downward spiral, which his family has not been able to stop despite their best efforts.



Further Reading:

- A Lawyer Abandoned Family and Career to Follow the Voices in His Head 

- A Lawyer’s Slide Into Psychosis Was Captured in a WSJ Profile. He Tells Us His Story. 



Further Listening:

- America's Maternal Mental Health Crisis 

- Evicted on Wood Street: California's Housing Crisis 



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Starbucks has a problem: Sales at U.S. stores have fallen sharply and now the company is looking to China, its second biggest market, to boost its revenue. But as WSJ’s Spencer Jakab explains, increased competition there is making that a tall order. 



Further Reading:

-Starbucks Is Running Out of Americans to Drink Its Expensive Coffee 

-The Furious Race for the Future of Coffee



Further Listening:

-The Underdog Coffee Bean That’s Making a Comeback 

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London and Dubai's international airports have become conduits for billions of dollars of illicit funds, potentially linked to corruption, drug trafficking and other crimes. WSJ's Margot Patrick explains how couriers in one money-laundering operation transported millions in dirty money on flights.



Further Reading:

- Billions in Dirty Money Flies Under the Radar at World’s Busiest Airports 



Further Listening:

- How The Government Tied One Couple to Billions in Stolen Bitcoin 



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Tesla announced last week that it’s laying off the team responsible for the biggest electric-vehicle charging network in the U.S. The move comes as consumer demand for EVs is dwindling. WSJ’s Jennifer Hiller reports on how the layoffs shocked the industry and how the change will impact efforts to build out a national EV charging network.



Further Reading:

-Tesla Is Pulling Back From EV Charging, and People Are Freaking Out 

-As Electric-Vehicle Shoppers Hesitate, Hybrid Sales Surge 



Further Listening:

-Money, Drugs, Elon Musk and Tesla’s Board 

-How China’s BYD Overtook Tesla 

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