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stopdiggin

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Fri Mar 24, 2023, 11:26 PM Mar 2023

I was kind of sitting on the fence here, until ...

Fortune - Elon Musk says Jerome Powell is so bad at his job that GPT-4 would be a better Fed chair:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-says-jerome-powell-172423630.html

If Elon Musk is running his mouth - isn't it almost a given ... ?
Also kind of leaning toward Musk (in more recent incarnations) as in many ways aping Trump's style as a deliberate provocateur and 'chaos agent.' If you think either one of these guys is even slightly interested in (or in fact even considers) the plight of the working stiff ...
- snip - Musk’s frustration with the Fed rate hike hikes goes back a ways. In December, he blamed the central bank for the steep drop in Tesla stock—last year the carmaker’s shares fell 65% and it lost $700 billion in market valuation—arguing interest rate hikes had made the stock market less appealing to investors.

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I was kind of sitting on the fence here, until ... (Original Post) stopdiggin Mar 2023 OP
egoloon muskrat is a dangerous waste of resources. niyad Mar 2023 #1
His price-gouging 1% friends are pocketing the Tesla money. live love laugh Mar 2023 #2
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