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Today’s Robber Barons Hide in Plain Sight

Posted on the 12 January 2025 by Phil's Stock World @philstockworld

Elon Musk and fellow billionaires are flouting their influence.

By Max Hastings, Bloomberg

The looming US presidential inauguration casts a long shadow. Not the least important uncertainty that feeds the fears of many concerns the role of Donald Trump intimate Elon Musk, the richest person in the world.

Musk is even more notorious than the president-to-be for reckless speaking, not least about Britain, for which he seems to have conceived a weirdly violent hostility. He characterizes our country as "a tyrannical police state" and believes we're "going full Stalin," while predicting "civil war is inevitable."

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