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Elon has personal loans made using Tesla stock as collateral. If he is asked to post more collateral on those loans, and the only way he can meet those calls i
by ketzo 4y ago
Elon has personal loans made using Tesla stock as collateral.
If he is asked to post more collateral on those loans, and the only way he can meet those calls is to sell even more huge amounts of Tesla stock (which is a significant “if”), then he’s going to drive the price of TSLA down non-trivially. (This, by the way, already happened once earlier this week.)
Which could spur more margin calls on other loans, as his collateral (more Tesla stock) has devalued.
It could spiral in a very nasty way, depending on how his personal finances and loans are structured, and how harshly the market views his fire-sale of TSLA.