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by JumpCrisscross 20 days ago
> Can the public markets pony up the cash in the short timeframe?

Yes, very easily, American households alone plop a few hundred billion to over a trillion dollars into the stock market every quarter. Whether investors want to is another question. (The answer, at least to the tune of $75bn for SpaceX, seems to be yes.)
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energy123 20 days ago
What I mean is that investors don't want to pony up the cash at current market prices. They want a discount. Then they will pony up the cash

Just like creditors demand higher rates on investment grade bonds, investors are demanding a higher risk premium if they're going to be expected to keep piling in cash to this particular sector that's diluting and raising.

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JumpCrisscross 20 days ago
> investors don't want to pony up the cash at current market prices

I don't think anyone can say this until the IPO goes out. Right now, all we're seeing is discount rates being adjusted market wide in anticipation of a rate hike.

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gizajob 20 days ago
I thought most of those households was massively in debt?
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