BREAKING: The UK threatens to arrest Elon Musk for social media posts

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How so? Honest question :jbhmm:
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I’ll try to explain it clearly, he takes a lot of short term and impulsive decision leading to small visible gains in the near future but with bad impact on the long term. And his decision usually please his businessmen’s friends. Like increasing oil production, lower taxes, which boost artificially stock market and lower oil prices, lowering short term inflation. But on the other hand it means less income for the government, higher debt, higher long term inflation. That’s why you saw recently a boom in stock market, decrease in oil prices and increase of 10y bond reflecting long term inflation.

It’s a typical decision of businessman, more focused on short term gains rather than long term. In all trading companies/big corporate it’s the same reasoning, mainly because end of year bonuses are calculated based on current year EBIT. No one cares about the long term in global business, even if they pretend they do.

And those short term decisions have impact over the world, leading mainly to trade war, it could be on oil versus Russia and Saudi Arabia who have lower marginal cost than the US so they can put US out of the market by increasing production and leading to huge losses for US shale oil companies on mid-long term. And it decreases the dominant position of the US globally and especially on long term geopolitics.

It leads to a lot of volatility in the global market which is usually what traders want to make money. And China benefits a lot from this because they are really focused on long term global dominance
Interesting read and yep China sure does have a competitive advantage with no elections
Yeah and it’s the only country truly thinking and betting on long term. That’s why they move step by step like in Africa to take control of global commodities and economy by 2050
 

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Props for the info. Not sure I understand the whole thing but I think I get the idea. That being said, not sure how this helps Europe to eat, I get the feeling big corporations over here also move that way I think. I can see how it would be different in China though with the more centralizes long-term planning
 

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Props for the info. Not sure I understand the whole thing but I think I get the idea. That being said, not sure how this helps Europe to eat, I get the feeling big corporations over here also move that way I think. I can see how it would be different in China though with the more centralizes long-term planning
What's he's saying in context is that China is the OKC Thunder in 2020-2021 where they're building for the future making these moves where they'll be a megapower years from now, these are moves no one else (minus Africa tho they're going a different route) is doing and that will come back and bite the other countries in the ass.
 
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