Money talks: Countdown for Tesla
Money Talks from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 18 October 2016
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Attention at all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in Uber credits to spend on your next train journey. |
| 0:11.0 | So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas. |
| 0:16.5 | Trains now on Uber. T's and sees apply check the Uber app. Hello I'm Simon Long the finance editor and this is Money Talks. Coming up this week, is there a devil in the detail of Elon Musk's |
| 0:36.0 | financial dealings? Descriptions like jaw-dropping, inventive, highly combustible come to |
| 0:41.5 | mind just as they do when you look at the space rockets. |
| 0:44.0 | How can the shadow market be brought back into the light? |
| 0:47.0 | Talking hundreds of billions of dollars a year and given that we're talking about very poor countries, |
| 0:52.0 | you know, this is really quite |
| 0:53.6 | significant and why should we be worried about the global dominance of private |
| 0:57.6 | equity? I hesitate to use the word but it is this weird form of socialism that is a |
| 1:02.2 | product of private equity and that will come with |
| 1:04.4 | consequences. Now in a world where growth tends to be low and risk-taking a little |
| 1:10.8 | out of fashion there's one entrepreneur who in a more public way than most |
| 1:14.8 | has taken it upon himself to inject a little ambition. |
| 1:18.0 | Full access to the entire greater solar system. |
| 1:21.0 | Obviously the test the mission is to accelerate the transition to sustainable energy. |
| 1:25.8 | If you never want to pay a penny again for electricity of fuel, |
| 1:30.9 | to make hundreds of thousands, ultimately millions of electric cars. |
| 1:34.0 | So how do we figure out how to take you to Mars? |
| 1:37.0 | Thus we could become a truly multi- planet species. |
| 1:40.0 | That was the voice of Silicon Valley Ticoon Elon Musk. |
| 1:43.4 | As the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, |
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