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Baxate
Feb 1, 2011


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PIZZA.BAT
Nov 12, 2016


:cheers:


calling it now: he had the galaxy brain plan to short his own stocks for temporary cash after which he'll go 'lol jk' in like a week and dare the sec to do anything about it

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



The_Franz posted:

someone is going to get a another visit from the sec

lol no

CampingCarl
Apr 28, 2008




Hello Mr. Musk, we down at the SEC took a donation and brought you a fruit basket in your time of need.

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

PIZZA.BAT posted:

calling it now: he had the galaxy brain plan to short his own stocks for temporary cash after which he'll go 'lol jk' in like a week and dare the sec to do anything about it

I’ll sign on to this

DELETE CASCADE
Oct 25, 2017

i haven't washed my penis since i jerked it to a phtotograph of george w. bush in 2003
if he shorted his own company and made that tweet it is like the most ridiculously clear example of market manipulation possible and the sec would have no choice but to go after him

also if he has existing shares pledged as collateral to guarantee his personal loans, the short succeeding would cause him to get margin called and probably wipe out all the gains he otherwise might have gotten

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

DELETE CASCADE posted:

if he shorted his own company and made that tweet it is like the most ridiculously clear example of market manipulation possible and the sec would have no choice but to go after him

just quoting for posterity

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



DELETE CASCADE posted:

if he shorted his own company and made that tweet it is like the most ridiculously clear example of market manipulation possible and the sec would have no choice but to go after him

also if he has existing shares pledged as collateral to guarantee his personal loans, the short succeeding would cause him to get margin called and probably wipe out all the gains he otherwise might have gotten

every law enforcement and judicial entity always has a choice to act.

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


DELETE CASCADE posted:

if he shorted his own company and made that tweet it is like the most ridiculously clear example of market manipulation possible and the sec would have no choice but to go after him

also if he has existing shares pledged as collateral to guarantee his personal loans, the short succeeding would cause him to get margin called and probably wipe out all the gains he otherwise might have gotten

Remember when they went after the banks after 2008? Me neither.

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine
MARGIN CALL
MARGIN CALL
MARGIN CALL

gschmidl
Sep 3, 2011

watch with knife hands

iospace posted:

Remember when they went after the banks after 2008? Me neither.

Musk: too high to fail??

MomJeans420
Mar 19, 2007



His margin calls are much lower than the current stock price (at least that's the Internet consensus on them, I don't think it's publicly known), he can afford to make number go down

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

gotta say, i'm surprised the lawyer reviewing elon's tweets let those go through

Cerv
Sep 14, 2004

This is a silly post with little news value.

quote:

https://www.ft.com/content/90eca82e-498e-4145-91a7-6b19cfe49170

Tesla did not immediately confirm whether Mr Musk’s tweet had been given legal clearance, and did not respond to a question about whether the company currently has a general counsel. Tesla lost three general counsels last year, one of them quitting after only two months.

why is the second question one you could even have to ask?

Baxate
Feb 1, 2011

Pinterest Mom posted:

gotta say, i'm surprised the lawyer reviewing elon's tweets let those go through

:laugh:

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

DELETE CASCADE posted:

if he shorted his own company and made that tweet it is like the most ridiculously clear example of market manipulation possible and the sec would have no choice but to go after him


darkly lmaoing

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually
https://twitter.com/spookperson/status/1256290610996146178

Blotto_Otter
Aug 16, 2013



Yes, but in the now-common “this should raise red flags if you know finance and accounting” way, not in the “this will get the feds to do something” way. US GAAP does require you to do business segment reporting (as well as disaggregating revenue by geography, when significant) that Tesla probably isn’t doing right, but the rules for that are a bit subjective. That subjectivity is necessary when you’re setting accounting rules for all types of business, but in practice the authorities aren’t going to do anything unless something is far more flagrantly wrong, andsomething else has already happened to lose someone important a bunch of money, and they’re looking to drop the hammer after the fact.

So it’s another small puff of smoke coming out of the accounting and finance department at Tesla, but smoke has been billowing out of there for years and it hasn’t mattered so none of this will matter either.

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

spacex is the best one of elon's products and it's because it's where he has the least involvement. tom mueller is an actual genius rocket scientist and gwynne shotwell is good at keeping elon out.

(also they're like 80% funded by nasa so lol)

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

Spinyahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Doctor Rope

Sagebrush posted:

But... rocket go brrrrrr

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

it is not elon stanning to agree that spacex's vertical return system is a seriously impressive piece of technology.

it's not elon stanning because he had nothing to do with it.

MomJeans420
Mar 19, 2007



https://twitter.com/luigi_ebooks/status/1256297047562559489?s=20

Bulgakov
Mar 8, 2009


рукописи не горят

lol he’s such a dumbest petty tyrant

https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/1/21244556/elon-musk-lie-epa-tesla-model-s-range-miles-mistake-door

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

https://twitter.com/TradeLikeElvis/status/1256241673425817602?s=20

oh yes, it keeps getting better

qirex
Feb 15, 2001


now that it’s impossible to get in actual trouble for lying, even if it’s a crime, elon and trump will be remembered as innovators of post-reality leadership

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

No, Captain of Industry what're you doing, baby?

CampingCarl
Apr 28, 2008




Is...is that really the kid's name?

Arcteryx Anarchist
Sep 15, 2007

Fun Shoe

Sagebrush posted:

spacex is the best one of elon's products and it's because it's where he has the least involvement. tom mueller is an actual genius rocket scientist and gwynne shotwell is good at keeping elon out.

(also they're like 80% funded by nasa so lol)

and the other 20% is the Air Force?

gschmidl
Sep 3, 2011

watch with knife hands

CampingCarl posted:

Is...is that really the kid's name?

Not yet known.

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


Arcteryx Anarchist posted:

and the other 20% is the Air Force?

They actually have private investors.

Also tellingly, their books are private, so we can't see how much starlink or the water tower is costing them, plus what they're getting robbed to keep Tesla afloat.

qirex
Feb 15, 2001

emoji rand musk

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

iospace posted:

They actually have private investors.

Also tellingly, their books are private, so we can't see how much starlink or the water tower is costing them, plus what they're getting robbed to keep Tesla afloat.

the water tower is a good investment because it keeps musk busy with something so he doesn't gently caress up the actual rocket science.

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?
goddamn, how is the board of directors not firing this guy?

pippy
May 29, 2013

CRIMES
for the love of the car

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?
imagine being a tesla employee, just an ordinary engineer, watching your unvested stock drop in value by 10% because Elon is high and tweeting. Monday morning, how excited are you about getting some work done?

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

The Management posted:

goddamn, how is the board of directors not firing this guy?

like, over this, specifically?

'cause i think you could have posted that three or four times a year for the last five or so years

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



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The Management posted:

goddamn, how is the board of directors not firing this guy?

he is basically holding the stock price hostage. people buy the stock because they think mister pickle rick science man is a Genious

Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

The Management posted:

imagine being a tesla employee, just an ordinary engineer, watching your unvested stock drop in value by 10% because Elon is high and tweeting. Monday morning, how excited are you about getting some work done?

just another manic muskday

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Aug 13, 2003



The Management posted:

imagine being a tesla employee, just an ordinary engineer, watching your unvested stock drop in value by 10% because Elon is high and tweeting. Monday morning, how excited are you about getting some work done?

they're all true believers

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