‘Quintessential Insider Deal’: Taxpayers Finance Family Ties of 2 Failing Green Companies

Author: Kevin Mooney Source: Daily Signal Grassroots conservative activists who run a reboot of Ronald Reagan’s political action committee want to know why the government allows one failing company to buy another failing company while both get taxpayer subsidies. They also want to know why corporate executives with friends in high places have not been subjected to […]

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Tesla (TSLA) SEC investigation: what could happen if there’s a securities law violation

Tesla is reportedly being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over a potential securities law breach regarding the disclosure of the fatal Model S crash in Florida while the driver was using the Autopilot. The investigation is believed to be aiming to determine if the news of the fatal crash was a material information […]

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The deep ties between Tesla and SolarCity’s boards of directors

SolarCity and Tesla Motors’ boards of directors are close. Critics say they are too close to be truly objective about Tesla’s $2.8 billion bid to buy SolarCity. A majority of SolarCity’s directors already have recused themselves from making decisions about the Tesla bid. So entangled are the ties between the two companies that SolarCity’s special […]

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Disproving Elon Musk’s “Vertical Integration Theory” for Tesla-SolarCity Deal

Summary Tesla’s explanation of vertical integration benefits from a SolarCity acquisition belies a lack of understanding of what vertical integration means and its associated benefits and costs. The Tesla identified forward and backward integration benefits created from a SolarCity acquisition are murky at best and do not necessarily correspond to traditional vertical integration value levers. […]

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