Mark Gilbert , Columnist

Elon Musk Is Getting Cold Feet About Buying Twitter

The richest man in the world may be struggling to find the cash.

May 13, 2022 at 3:04 PM UTC

Updated on

May 13, 2022 at 7:20 PM UTC

Mark Gilbert is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering asset management. A former London bureau chief for Bloomberg News, he is author of “Complicit: How Greed and Collusion Made the Credit Crisis Unstoppable.”

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