{"id":63017,"date":"2018-03-30T01:34:59","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T05:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=63017"},"modified":"2018-03-30T01:34:59","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T05:34:59","slug":"tesla-is-just-months-from-a-total-collapse-says-hedge-fund-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2018\/tesla-is-just-months-from-a-total-collapse-says-hedge-fund-manager.html","title":{"rendered":"Tesla is Just Months From a Total Collapse, Says Hedge-Fund Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Marketwatch) Unless Elon Musk \u201cpulls a rabbit out of his hat,\u201d Tesla will be bankrupt within four months, says John Thompson of Vilas Capital Management.   \u201cCompanies eventually have to make a profit, and I don\u2019t ever see that happening here,\u201d he told MarketWatch. \u201cThis is one of the worst income statements I\u2019ve ever seen and between the story and the financials, the financials will win out in this case.\u201d   Thompson manages $25 million and his Tesla TSLA, +2.02%  short is the fund\u2019s biggest position. To be fair, he\u2019s been betting big against Tesla for years, which, of course, means he\u2019s endured some brutal stretches.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/tesla-is-just-months-away-from-a-total-collapse-says-hedge-fund-manager-2018-03-27\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Marketwatch) Unless Elon Musk \u201cpulls a rabbit out of his hat,\u201d Tesla will be bankrupt within four months, says John Thompson of Vilas Capital Management. \u201cCompanies eventually have to make a profit, and I don\u2019t ever see that happening here,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63018,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63017\/revisions\/63018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}