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Grant’s Current Yield Podcast

The Tesla episode

Grant’s Current Yield Podcast

Grant's Financial Publishing, INc.

Investing, Business, Stockmarkets, Financeexpertjimgrantoninvestment, Realestatefederalreserve, News, Business News

4.6693 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

The indomitable Montana Skeptic (@MontanaSkeptic1) joins Grant’s for a hearty discussion of the most polarizing car company in the world,

1:51 Is a “supernova” third quarter in the works?

3:54 The basic #bear case

7:49 #Model 3 reservation holders: What now?

13:26 The lawyers circle

16:14 Montana’s overall #investment approach

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0:00.0

Well, welcome to Grant's interest rate observer of the air.

0:08.3

I'm Jim Grant, and with me as always is Eric Whitehead.

0:11.1

To my left, he is the engineer.

0:13.6

And there's Evan Lorenz, the great Evan Lorenz deputy editor of grants and Phil Grant,

0:18.7

the proprietor of almost daily grants, and directly across from me

0:22.9

is Montana Skeptic. Hey, Montana. Pleasure to be here. Thank you. Yeah, we have had Montana's cousin,

0:29.0

Connecticut credulous on before. I think I believe anything. I regret. I missed him, but I've

0:34.2

Thanksgiving dinner must be a trial, your place. Anyway, I'm going to introduce Montana as he chooses to be introduced.

0:41.6

He is a man of parts.

0:43.1

He manages a billion dollars and more for a family office, bonds, equities, hedge funds, what have you.

0:48.8

He is a Yale trained lawyer who practiced for some 30 years, although I'm going to, I think

0:53.8

it's a typo. I'm going to guess

0:54.8

perhaps 10 years judging by your youthful countenance.

0:57.4

Good that it were. Yeah. And so it comes to us through the law and through a certain mindset,

1:04.0

as is evident in his nom to, not plume exactly, but nom to tweet. And I see that his symbol,

1:10.8

the individual and the spirit that

1:14.2

animates him and is posted is Galileo. And so it moves, said Galileo in Montana. The stock called

1:22.5

Tesla, it too moves, right? Is it moving in the right direction? It moves and it levitates and

1:27.3

levitates endlessly levitates

1:27.8

endlessly and there is no right or wrong. It's utterly detached from any metric we have ever

1:33.8

been familiar with, save the insane metric of endless QE and ZERP for the past few years.

1:40.0

So you're embarrassed, are you? That's a great question. I am cautious right now because Tesla is aiming to have a supernova Q3, and it's in desperate condition.

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