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Elon Musk wants to radically reshape who controls America’s money supply (edition.cnn.com)

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Elon Musk, a key Trump backer who is expected to have considerable sway in helping shape Trump’s policies, included a “100” emoji while resharing Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah’s post on X calling for abolishing the Fed.

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[–] _bcron_ 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Elon Musk is a case study in Dunning Kruger. Gifted child boy wonder is here to broker a peace deal and receive the validation he's been trained to seek.

He has a rudimentary understanding of how yields affect bond prices and he's rolling up his sleeves, everyone duck

[–] seaQueue 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The dude can't even run his own companies, Tesla and SpaceX succeeded in spite of him which is a hell of a lot more impressive than anything Elon has done

[–] _bcron_ 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

An unabridged list of Musk's accomplishments:

Did not dilute and now has a 20% stake in a company with a $1tn market cap.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Conned Compaq out of $300m right before the .com bubble burst

Gotta be fair