- It turns out that Goldman recently profited $100 million from its own buying of call options on Tesla shares.
- It also turns out that Goldman (and Morgan) a while back also lent Elon Musk several hundred million dollars against his holdings of Tesla stock.
- I have no evidence to actually prove anything but it certainly looks to me like Goldman has found a way to prevent what could have become very real "problems" for the bank, in the J. Paul Getty sense, by way of the market for equity derivatives.
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