Stretching for Gilded Poles
Elon Musk is possibly the most interesting man in the world, in our opinion. His nobility comes from his past as a founder of PayPal, but his popularity only grows in this era as he seeks to tackle big projects that include the car business, space, mass transit and other subjects. Rarely in an era does one person rise to this height of importance attributed to them by the society and time they live in. As an example, his cameo on the CBS show “The Big Bang Theory” crowned his popularity in 2015. What we’d like to do is look at the rhymes of history to ascertain where we are as the pendulum swings and if there are other symptoms today that are needed to guard our independent thinking as investors. Let’s look back in time at an analogous period of global history.
