Mark Gongloff, Columnist

Elon Musk’s Tesla Meltdown: Theme of the Week

Here’s what led Bloomberg Opinion coverage this week.

August 12, 2018 at 12:00 PM UTC

Mark Gongloff is a Bloomberg Opinion editor and columnist covering climate change. He previously worked for Fortune.com, the Huffington Post and the Wall Street Journal.

Elon Musk can’t help it.
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Elon Musk has long been outspoken, hammering at skeptics and critics of Tesla Inc. and his other ventures on Twitter and elsewhere. But this week he may have taken things a bit too far, tweeting that he was considering taking his electric-car-maker private and claiming he had funding secured – though nobody yet has evidence of such funding. The SEC is investigating, and Tesla’s board brought itself out of cryosleep to see what all the fuss was about. Bloomberg Opinion writers were all over it from the first moment.

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