Brian Stewart, Seeking Alpha's Director of News, welcome back to the podcast.

Always great to talk to you on these Wall Street roundups.

Looking forward to it. Thanks.

We were discussing what might be the top story of the week, a lot of stories in contention,

but perhaps Tesla, everybody's favorite underfollowed stock and favorite underfollowed

CEO and favorite underfollow topic.

What did Tesla show us this week?

A lot of discussion about Musk and Doge and

Tesla and whether it can recover. What did we see out of Tesla this week?

Yeah, quiet reserves, unassuming Elon Musk somehow found himself in the news this week.

There you go. I mean, if you're looking at it from just sort of a drama perspective,

obviously it's

can't help but talk about the turn that's happened.

It's Musk versus Trump now.

Elon Musk has come out against the bill, the budget bill that's currently passed the

House.

It's not working its way through the Senate.

Musk's main point of contention seems to be around the electric vehicle provisions in the bill.

Specifically, there was incentives to purchase tax incentives to purchase electric vehicles

in the old law. And this gets rid of that.

Musk is taking a broader view in his public commentary, talking about the additional,

the debt impact from the spending bill, which obviously is opposed to the the Doge goals that

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