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by f0xJtpvHYTVQ88B 1484 days ago
Musk is no longer funding a portion of the deal with a margin loan.

https://fortune.com/2022/05/25/elon-musk-equity-component-tw...
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itsoktocry 1484 days ago
It's semantics. He doesn't have the cash, so one way or another he's leveraging up.
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JumpCrisscross 1484 days ago
> He doesn't have the cash, so one way or another he's leveraging up

He's illiquid, not insolvent. Selling equity in Twitter or selling his equity in Tesla would be two ways to gain liquidity without leverage.

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