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J. Butler's avatar

As of last Tuesday, short sellers of Tesla stock made $11.5 billion. There's your crystal ball: watch the short sales. But was Elon one of the short sellers??

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/22/tesla-short-sellers-have-made-11point5-billion-from-this-years-selloff-.html

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John Lomax III's avatar

As for Musk's financial viability, don't forget he is able to scam/steal billions of taxpayer funds with his Department of Government Executions position. He's already cancelling NASA contracts to divert them to himself.

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Geoff Anderson's avatar

I hope you are right about Blue Origin bringing the fire to SpaceX, but I also worry that enough former NASA executives are now so entrenched into SPaceX that it might delay the reckoning

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Isaac Segal's avatar

Re: Crystal balls.

"Have you learned from your mistakes?"

"Yes. And if I had it to do all over, I could repeat them exactly."

—Jonathan Miller & Dudley Moore in "Good Evening"

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