How do you know Elon Musk of Tesla is getting desperate? Look at his attacks on journalists and analysts

By Tom Winnifrith | Friday 6 July 2018

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Ask a high quality fraudster like Sam Antar how to deal with critics in the media or on wall Street? It is easy. Do not give them the oxygen of publicity, ignore them and focus on what really matters: committing fraud. But Elon Musk of Tesla has a problem. To keep his cash guzzling baby Tesla going he needs to raise fresh debt and.or equity so tumbling bond and share prices matter and you can tell Elon is panicking. His latest outbursts show that, as you can see below.

First up he attacks analysts on the TV as being low grade then he turns to journalists who are hostile attacking their integrity.

When I am going after a fraudster and I hear that they are responding by either direct or indirect (prepping their pet Bulletin Board morons) attacks on me as a failed fund manager or a guy who works in a pizza shop I know i have won and am onto something. Tesla is a car crash waiting to happen, it could well be a zero by Thanksgiving and the behaviour of its CEO and founder only adds to the bear case.

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