The WSJ reported on Tuesday that the debt for Musk's Twitter purchase has been stuck on banks' balance sheets, eating into the ability to fund other deals.
Elon Musk's Twitter acquisition ended up being the worst financing deal for banks since 2008, the WSJ said.
The $13 billion in loans Musk took out have been stuck on banks' balance sheets.
The loans have cut into pay for bankers and lenders' ability to finance other deals, the Journal reported.
Electric vehicles and space exploration are two things that need to happen for humanity's long term survival. It isn't gullibility to applaud someone for moving either thing forward, even if they're just the money guy. We live in a capitalist society, that is just what was going to happen short of another FDR or JFK restoring trust in American government.
It's ignoring the evidence afterwards that is the problem, and you didn't, so there's nothing to be ashamed of.
What about the 2008 crisis was bad for banks? They made hundreds of billions of dollars for a decade, selling literally nothing, gave themselves huge bonuses and golden parachutes, and then got government bailouts. Within 7 years they were back at it, doing the exact same thing. It was a crisis for you and me, it was a consequence-free piggy bank for the banks.
I wonder what part of the deal is causing a loss? A loan under no normal circumstances can lose money. They gave Musk $13B that he had to pay back with interest. As collateral he had to put up Tesla stock. How can that lose money?
twitter is losing revenue and cant pay the principle on the loan. nobody will buy this debt from the banks that issued the loan because twitter is a sinking ship. the great majority of elon's wealth is tied up in tesla stock, so if he sells any the value of the rest of what he holds goes down because the sale effects the stock price... basically nobody is solvent enough to repay the loans, so the banks that issued the loans are stuck with them instead of selling that debt to get it off their books fast.
If Musk has to sell Tesla stock to pay back the loan, what does the bank care? There is something not being reported about the loan terms that they could lose money.
Really, thanks to the superpower they have of using money that doesn't even exist (Think you could make money if you could make money out of thin air?) it almost isn't anyone's money.
Except when the bill comes due, then it's the taxpayer's money. The middle class didn't need that money anyway.