Crypto watershed, Amtrak Joe, China GDP and a $1.36m pixel

We gather the numbers to know from the week’s biggest business and economic news stories so you can impress your friends.

If you’ve been day trading all week and glued to your monitor following Coinbase’s debut on the Nasdaq, we get it. The markets have been an interesting sandbox to play in recently — as long as you’re ready to lose your lunch money. But what else is new? There are some big business and economic news stories you may have missed — from the United States’ riding-the-rails president and an $80bn gambit to a $16.8m extravaganza of auctioned-off NFTs created by a mysterious digital artist. So put on your happy Friday face and check out the numbers to know from this week.