NY times = anti Tesla. I don't even have to open the link to know that, just hovering over it is all I need.
Google 'Broder and doing circles in a parking lot' or just click here:
A Most Peculiar Test Drive
He's now a managing editor of the NY Times.
It is good to remind folks about the constant FUD of mainstream media, even tho applauding "positive" changes of attitude from some journalists is problematic as they are NOT real changes, these journalists just had to eventually APPEAR as they are impartial now, because they have no choice, they want to keep what credibility they have left - the reality disconnect would crush them into the Gordon Johnson category if they tried to continue their FUD reporting.
HOWEVER, and especially in a forum like this where we know better, maybe we could move past this defensive /distracting stage -and
fight Tesla's real enemies rather than their foot soldiers.
We now know who they are - besides the obvious oil & gas / coal & utilities interests /ICE : most large financial conglomerates including the big 7 Wall Street banks (
Dept of Justice repeat criminal felony offenders, who just pay a symbolic fine whenever their SEC accomplice is forced to sue them after the Justice Dept actions) .
A call to arms: we can do things that are more effective than debunking the journalists and go in the right direction with little changes on our part. Here are a few to start with:
1.
keep as much of our USD deposits in Credit Unions rather than the usual banks (JP Morgan, HSBC, Goldman Sachs etc ). It may be necessary to keep an account at one of these larger banks out of necessity, but why not keep as much as practical in Credit Unions? That is because credit unions are not for profit, they benefit local businesses and do not gamble with derivatives (like banks do, at the expense of the taxpayer when they lose or help manipulate markets). CU's contribute to the real economy, not our increasingly larger paper economy.
Why let the FUDsters use our deposits to attack Tesla, when we have the choice not to leave our deposits with them?
Credit Unions used to be restricted as to membership, but that is not true anymore - they offer completely similar services as banks and most still offer free checking which is getting rarer /more difficult to find for banks unless of course you are a big client. Some CU's are very large, for example Penfed, or even Apple Savings Bank in NYC with perfunctory membership requirements. Or your old college or employer credit union.
These deposits in credit unions will NOT be used by Wall St financial companies to short or manipulate TSLA, besides other problematic consequences.
It would be great if a majority of people did this, but still, every bit helps
2. Use as much as possible disruptive financial products that are actually just as safe but more efficient/ faster and less expensive than their traditional counterparts. I can think of a couple, which I can recommend:
TransferWise for faster /less expensive international funds transfers, and the
Cash app which lets you transfer instantly funds to family /friends/ others you trust, but also pay for anything with its associated Visa credit card. This is a disruptive Fintech from Jack Dorsey (ex Twitter CEO and now Square/ Block) which now owns its own bank. Finally on the way to realizing what Elon Musk wanted X.com aka Paypal to achieve: eliminate the (unfair but profitable for established institutions) inefficiencies of our financial system.
3. Use your influence to have any direct or indirect investments in fossil fuels divested from funds where you have a voice, similar to
Harvard's $42B endowment fund recent decision
4. Any other means you can think of to address
this cold war the FUD has /is currently engaging against Tesla at its roots/ heads. Avoiding putting investments in
companies funding the anti Tesla FUD, voting for better political leaders (are there any?).. Maybe someone can start a new thread figuring out what other actions can be taken.
https://www.carbonbubble.net/
Edit: grammar/ illustration and refinements added - and meanwhile another recent "positive" article in the NY Times today Jan 8 by Jack Ewing reports positively on how Elon's quirky approach to make its own components in house paid off this year, but as expected
HAD TO end with the usual negative /deceptive FUD concluding comments (likely dictated by the NY TImes overlords)
:
"..
Tesla vehicles still suffer from quality problems. The company told regulators in December that it planned to recall more than 475,000 cars for two separate defects. One could cause the rear view camera to fail, and the other could cause the front hood to open unexpectedly. And federal regulators are investigating the safety of Tesla’s Autopilot system, which can accelerate, brake and steer a car on its own.
“Tesla will continue to grow,” said Stephen Beck, managing partner at cg42, a management consulting firm in New York. “But they are facing more competition than they ever have, and the competition is getting stronger.”
www.thedrive.com
we can go - follow the options leverage) tsla then finds its range (like ~feb to sept ‘21) for a bit, hopefully a window like 1050-1250 holds up. id take it for a while until GF4&5 proof, but we’ll see.
