Trucker protest hits the auto supply chain

🚀 Elon gave a Starship update. The massive, fully reusable spacecraft—which Elon Musk has called “the holy grail of space technology”—could lower launch costs to less than $10 million within two to three years, the SpaceX CEO said yesterday (the company charges $60–$65 million per launch currently). Starship is expected to be a workhorse for the space industry; NASA wants to use it to bring astronauts to the moon in 2025, and Musk wants to use it for colonizing Mars...sometime after that.

🚚 Anti-vaccine protesters are causing real damage to supply chains. Toyota, Ford, and GM are suspending or scaling back production at several plants as Freedom Convoy protests continue to disrupt a vital trade route along the US–Canada border. Meanwhile, the US Department of Homeland Security warned that brewing copycat protests in the US could threaten the Super Bowl this weekend.

🏠 Zillow on the comeback trail? First, the bad news: The company lost a whopping $881 million on its algorithmic home-buying business last year (which it closed down in November). Now, the better news: It's offloading its homes faster than expected, and also announced plans to build a “housing super app” that will drive revenue growth. Its battered stock surged 16% after the report.—NF