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She texted a colleague, who replied: “This house of cards is pretty well crashed.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

Yasmin and Henry are perched at the very top of a house of cards, and there’s a strong wind coming just over the horizon.

From Salon • Mar. 1, 2026

Every time OpenAI wants to spend money, Windsor said, it needs to raise money — “and it only takes one investment round to go badly for the whole house of cards to fall.”

From MarketWatch • Feb. 5, 2026

“Smoke and mirrors, house of cards, silly investors—what do you want me to tell you?” asks Ishbia.

From Barron's • Jan. 16, 2026

With the shiny metallic parts in hand, they began to build the model, adding part to part, as if building a house of cards.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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