If we assume he isnt an idiot, I am betting he had the bot/fake account metrics in part of the deal agreement. If they fight him on this he can then rat them out to the SEC for falsifying public company financial disclosures.The dude very shifty and we know he doesn't take anything SEC related very seriously so who knows. I wonder if the bot/user overstatement correction came before or after the actual deal was done. I know he made his offer and announced his intent before then.
How funny would it be if Musk put the "deal on hold" to crash the price so his friends/other investors could scoop up big positions on the cheap and give them institutional control.
That is what Hindenburg Research has been saying will happen.Isn't he also in a position to put it on hold, force them to verify the real users vs. bots, and then renegotiate the deal based on the actual user numbers? That is what my laymans view of this has been the entire time.
I think it is wrong to think of this a recession. Everything is all screwy, but the problem is not a traditional recession at all. There's too much money trying to find too few homes.I just don't see how we could pull out of a recession that has barely touched the actual day to day economy. Seems like wishful thinking with a fed saying they are going to hike until the labor market shows some weakness. The shallowest recession we have had that wasn't bailed out by printers was 1990 and it lasted 9 months. Really similar situation too.
I think it is wrong to think of this a recession. Everything is all screwy, but the problem is not a traditional recession at all. There's too much money trying to find too few homes.
We have this insane amount of non-directly financial variables hitting the markets the last 2 or 3 months. To be perfectly frank, I think the market has held up better than I expected. Near double digit inflation, Russia/Ukraine, China playing Taiwan games, NK launching missiles, Fed balance sheet run-off, rising rates, food shortages, supply chain fuckery, Congress being a shitshow (not that this is new), I could go on and all of this is occurring at the same time. AAPL is at a five month low. Thats it. A five month low.I mean isn't that almost exactly what 1990 was? Fed was hiking rates cause inflation was running hot and then Saddam invades Kuwait and gas spiked.
The DOW at the time dropped only like 15% before recovering so we are in line with that now but the big difference was COVID wasn't causing supply chain issues and the markets in 1990 weren't as overheated as they are today. To curb inflation they need to destroy paper wealth or at least keep it from growing further, which is the tight rope JP is trying to walk.
Seems weird to say the economy isn't impacted. We've had plenty of people here talking about how the supply chain is fucking their business.
It's only not impacting it if you buy into the bullshit numbers the administration puts out about how amazing everything is. Otherwise it's actually a giant shit show.