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Elon Musk is known for many things. The subtlety is not part.
When Musk shared a two -minute grainy video at 4:59 am on Monday at his 218 million followers, his message did not contain words, and yet the message was clear. He showed the intellectual of the free market Milton Friedman, in a 1980 clip well known to economists, poetic wax on free trade while he sketches the international origins of the parties that form a pencil.
Musk expressed his discomfort with President Trump’s imposition of new draconian prices. And yet, you have to ask yourself what Musk hopes to accomplish.
He is not a known president of Brook a lot of public criticism, after all. Try to imagine Susie Wiles, the chief of staff of the White House, subcontracting her boss.
And Musk has made his way several times to disagree with Trump during the weekend, suggesting that he believes that he is not subject to the same rules that govern the others in the president’s inner circle.
Speaking on Saturday by video at an extremely right Italian political conference, he said that he hoped that the United States and the European Union “would move to a zero-tail situation, effectively creating a free trade area”.
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