Is Elon Musk’s Toxic Reign Coming to an End?
Tim Fries, 10 July 2021
Afew years ago, no one would have expected for one man to introduce so much volatility into the crypto space. Elon Musk filled that ignoble role, but everything has its expiry date.
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Elon Musk got his first major financial breakthrough when he sold his Zip2 company to Compaq in 1999 for $307 million. Three years later, as a co-founder of PayPal, he sold it to eBay for $1.5 billion. Established business pedigree and these two financial injections were sufficient for him to focus on more concrete projects: Continue reading “Article: Is Elon Musk’s Toxic Reign Coming to an End?”
Just a few months ago, AMC CEO Adam Aron leveraged retail traders to lead the company out of its ‘certain’ demise. After billions in raised capital, retail traders—self-proclaimed ‘apes’—have now seemingly signalled the limit to selling shares. The situation illustrates a major shift in finance, for perhaps the first time.
Amid heightened margin trading requirements and greater scrutiny on GME/AMC stocks, investors continue to look under every rock for signs of institutional trickery. A theory which was notably gaining attention by retail investors stemming from a recent AMC filing and Silver Lake’s convertible notes was believed to have larger implications than what is now known.
The more one zooms into the stock market’s underpinnings, the more surreal it gets. Today, the NYSE has designated AMC as a ‘threshold security’, shining further light onto the situation with AMC shares that fail to deliver.
Having the collateral to cover stock trading is important to oil the market cogs. With margin trading, it is critical, a lesson learned the hard way from “Bill” Hwang last month. From today, the SEC will decide which brokerages failed to cover their securities trading, and what punishments it will dish out.
It is not often noted that the U.S. Treasury too injects the economy with cash flow, on top of various stimulus packages. With a precarious economic balance such as it is, excess liquidity may yet be another trigger to make inflation worse.