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Best Move for Musk: Sell Tesla

Best Move for Musk: Sell Tesla
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk in this file photo. Musk has transformed the automobile industry but now needs to move on. DAVID MCNEW/AFP/Getty Images
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Great entrepreneurs polarize, and taking the degree of polarization as a yardstick, Tesla’s Elon Musk must be a great entrepreneur. Splitting the investor space and the public into two ironclad camps, he usually comes out on top of any detractors.

In  May, Tesla’s stock dropped 30 percent from high to low  after the old stories of delivery delays and tussle with analysts, but it has since rallied a whopping 50 percent. But the problems, especially the lack of profitability, remain.

Christopher Whalen
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Christopher Whalen is the chairman of Whalen Global Advisors and the author of "Ford Men." This article was first published by the Institutional Risk Analyst.
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