Liam Denning, Columnist

Tesla Sells Some More of Its Hot Product

The fact that the product is stock doesn’t sit well with the idea the electric-car maker is nearly self-funding.

December 8, 2020 at 4:15 PM UTC

Liam Denning is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy. A former banker, he edited the Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street column and wrote the Financial Times’s Lex column.

The price only goes up.
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I mean, wouldn’t you?

The emphasis is mine, but the logic is obvious. If you have a product for which the market is willing to pay virtually anything, you sell more of it. That’s true for electric cars and it’s just as true for stock, which is far easier to manufacture.