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The Observer.

Well, first of all, I wanted to really say that I'm very excited for the IFD.

This is the sound of money being lost.

I think you are really the best hope for Germany.

Starting just before Christmas, it took two weeks for Tesla, the electric car company,

to lose almost a quarter of its value.

That was $400 billion or thereabouts.

No one was really out of pocket, though, because Tesla's value had more than doubled in the second half of last year.

In fact, the graph of Tesla's share price, since a little bit before the U.S. election, looks like a silhouette of the Matterhorn on the side of a Toblerone.

The summit, the peak, is the 17th of December, 2024.

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