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The money spent on fighting "terrorism" and defending allies is money that has to be spent anyway or has already been spent in order to have a dominant military in the world. In the post-WWII world (or even today), having the US being the dominant power of the world (instead of letting the Soviet Union, for example) was/is a necessary "evil." Active combat against minor opponents in limited conflicts was a necessity to field-test weapon systems as well as personnel training.
Countries under the protective umbrella have been paying for the protection by having to export to the US to earn dollar in order to buy oil. The ME oil exporters functions as a tax-collector for the dollar-denominated world: by recycling the dollar that exporters like Germany, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, etc. etc. earn back into the US. The need to buy oil in dollars is what gives the dollar value overseas, just like domestically it is the need to pay taxes in dollars that give the dollar value. Debt denom...
Both Germany and Japan have huge stockpiles of Plutonium, which enables each country to become nuclear power within a few weeks when there is political will
If I understand you correctly, you are saying high oil prices, and more terrorism would be beneficial to us?
Both Germany and Japan have huge stockpiles of Plutonium, which enables each country to become nuclear power within a few weeks when there is political will
I remember reading that some time ago. Japan has a mountain of plutonium and is only 2 months away from nuclear weapons because they have all the technology and materials necessary for a nuke. I don't think that was the real purpose for Japan and Germany to have nuclear power plants.
Tesla stock price crashes 10% on vehicle price cut, missed production numbers
I'd get out of the car business if BMW and Toyota were coming after me.
Right, did Amazon make any profit for 10 years until they took over the world.
If there were money to be made in the electric car business at this point in time, the big car companies would be heavily into electric cars. The fact is that no company at all has made profits in electric cars.
If the battery tech improves and the market becomes viable for profits, I expect many conventional car companies to move in that direction.
What is Tesla's profit "moat"? How do they protect their business so as to keep profits up in the face of competition? So far, Tesla hasn't made a profit even though there is very little in the way of competition.
As for investing in Tesla… I actually did make some money with some puts I bought the day after the infamous Musk tweet. I was thinking of trying that again a month ago, but never got around to it and it looks like I'm late in the game.
The $7500 taxpayer gift per car was cut in half. So, today Tesla says they will cut the price of their cars by $2000 per car to offset the loss of corporate welfare. Tesla just decided to throw away $2000 per car profit to try to maintain sales.
..."We have seen similar situations happen with the end of EV incentives before. The best examples being Denmark and Hong Kong which used to be two of Tesla’s best markets. But now they dropped down to be some of the worst markets in terms of sales since they killed their incentives.
BMW - Broke My Wallet. They are lovely cars, if you can afford them. You like paying 2-3x for everything, be my guest.
The cheapest electric BMW - i3 - costs $44,500 and is a fucking shitbox compared to the cheapest $44K Model3. Heck, it's not in the same fucking zipcode and it's fucking obvious to everyone.
The consumer has rejected battery cars so everything about how great they are is irrelevant.
If there were money to be made in the electric car business at this point in time, the big car companies would be heavily into electric cars. The fact is that no company at all has made profits in electric cars.
kt1652 saysRight, did Amazon make any profit for 10 years until they took over the world.
Amazon is still hardly making any profit after all that time, and it's been like 14 years. They make like a 2% - 3% net profit and are still posting losses overseas. Not sure if you should use them as a benchmark. Don't confuse sales dollars as making money.
Tesla sales will take an even bigger hit with the tax credits going away. Doesn't anyone remember these two:
I don't know where Tesla shares will go in the future, but I do know where Tesla sales will be. High High and Higher.
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Currently its a Luxury car play and makes no profits in the near future. I'd see some prospects if it move out from Fremont, CA to more price competitive manufacturing base (unless state is already compensating) or come with some sort of self driving bots technology to make vertical business models. Just to be a passenger car play has limited scope to make profits as the competition gearing up.
Strategist saysI don't know where Tesla shares will go in the future, but I do know where Tesla sales will be. High High and Higher.
Wow, you really do drink the kool-aid, don't you.
Elon's coup will be SpaceX, with it's near monopoly on satellite launches for the next decade or two.
Aside from that, ventures like Tesla are very if-fy. And if you look at investing, then surely, companies which don't give dividends aren't places to park anymore than a sliver of one's portfolio.
Even a simple investment in R J Reynolds yielded one a huge return by reinvesting dividends. And let's be honest, cigarettes have been around for a lot longer than any of us on this earth.Reynolds America (RAI) prior to the 2008 crisis, date range of Jan 2006 to Jan 2014 ...
Substitute Tesla for Amazon, electric cars for online retail and legacy car companies for brick-and-mortar retail giants and you basically have the case against AMZN circa 2000-2002
Substitute Tesla for Amazon, electric cars for online retail and legacy car companies for brick-and-mortar retail giants
DASKAA saysSubstitute Tesla for Amazon, electric cars for online retail and legacy car companies for brick-and-mortar retail giants
Do you realize that Benz, Daimler, Porsche, and many others had hybrid-electric cars well before Musk was even born?
If Musk gets his battery giga-factory going as planned, I'd think Tesla will have a massive advantage compared to the other big auto-makers for the next several years.
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It's over $300, with a loss of $10/share, but revenue just keeps going up. Hard to figure out what a fair price is since it doesn't make money yet.
How would you come up with a fair price per share?