The California has Mecum tags on the keychain... Any chance one or more of these were auction items? Might explain the odd collection and pricing scheme.

2nd Gear - These are going to be continuations of Trump Era tariffs and a continued growth in the with-holding of technology transfers from US companies.

Came to say the same...

Since the Pandemic hiring in most tech companies (and Tesla is valued like a tech company), the higher interest rates are creating a slow-roll of lay-offs. Zero-interest Rate money let companies hire and shelf/warehouse talent and now those cheap loans are coming due. People are ALWAYS the first cost-structure…

3rd Gear - Last week Marketplace did a week’s long series with The Washington Post about training and hiring of people as a result of the CHIPS ACT. Arizona had setup training programs and had identified hundreds of people to form a pipeline and continued bench strength.

The Wilson came in about $90M below budget, but I would have to guess that 2008 gave them some slack in the financials. Construction was bottoming out and people were glad to just have jobs in that sector and raw materials were lower at that point as well.

The largest issue is going to be the daily traffic they are going to want crossing. So far it hasn’t been a huge pain for the people to go 695 around the West side of Baltimore, but we also aren’t in winter weather mode either.

This will be tied up in courts for years and having a fixed point of reference to re-coop expenditures is a better outcome than having money deposited only to have the costs double. (Since this will very easily increase by 15% from overruns and inflation on materials/labor.)

With the regular turnover at Tesla, I can’t imagine what kind of Bench Strength they are developing. Even odder when you cut the staff that was un-paid interns rather than identify potential hires.

Tesla is going full “Burn the talent” pipeline. They recently reneged on 3200 internships, some of them un-paid(?)!

I thought he had some deal with duPont Registry... I recall that “Holiday Sale” last year. Maybe he just wants to pocket a bit more cash off the sale?

Having spent a year teaching at Nova in the late 90's, you nailed the undergrad student body. Burnt out, wanna be pro-athletes hoping some scout will see them. Hated the entire experience!

Levante Modena Optima with all the options - $118,950.

$108K in lease payments? On a SUV that, double checks website, runs around $130K loaded (assumes Grecale Folgore with all the boxes checked.)

Had the United States bargained for salaries and benefits in the same manner other countries did during the 1920s, the cost structure would have shifted more to Government and Companies. (Consider the divergent paths in Europe and the US when it comes to how benefits are determined.) 

Depends on what the strike price might be... To assume that a former employee may attempt to exercise their vested options at any date in the future creates an issue regarding the overall pool used for compensation.

One of the ironies of CCP rule has been their drive to simultaneously keep the population un-educated about the processes of Governing while at the same time looking for Educational Remissions in the form of students studying in Western Universities.

The largest issue coming out of 2008 regarding housing starts was that it was one of land allocation and creating the narrative of people needing more house than they could afford. (Different from the NINJA loans and CBOs rolling bad debt into seemingly AA.)

There was a great study about how the population is so trapped by the “Social Credit system” that they can’t even complain about how the government is doing nothing to make whole investors just looking for a home.

This EV glut also falls into their Belts & Roads Initiative. They keep building infrastructure in foreign locations and need to have cheap transportation so that the populations see the value and continues to fall in line. China’s economy continuing to shrink means they need all that foreign income/indebtedness.…