Tag Lithium

Blain’s Morning Porridge Tech Tesla

Hubris, Tesla and Exploding Pigeons.

Would a Tesla survive a Kamikaze Pigeon attack? Tesla remains the tech stock that’s defying the ongoing valuations reality. Why? Because Musk still controls the narrative – and that may be about to change.

Autonomous Driving, Batteries, Elon Musk, Lithium, Narrative, Tech, Tesla
Bill Blain
June 22, 2022
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Blain’s Morning Porridge Climate Change Green Energy lithium Tesla

Guest Post: Miles Morland – How Green is your Telsa

Markets and Politicians share many common traits – they over enthuse on the upside and fail to grasp hidden costs and dangers. The Morning Porridge is resolutely in favour of climate change mitigation, but the current headlong plunge into renewable energies and lithium batteries has the potential to end up an environmental and market disaster.

Electric Vehicles, Lithium, Renewables, Tesla
Bill Blain
March 16, 2022
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Blain’s Morning Porridge Climate Change Covid lithium

Football more deadly than Tennis, and Lithium’s Hindenburg Moment

Finally, proof Football is more deadly than Tennis. And, as the UK proudly climbs onboard the Gigafactory bandwagon, are we heading for a Hindenburg Moment?

Airships, Covid, Flying boats, Football, Lithium, Tennis
Bill Blain
July 1, 2021
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What next for Banks in wake of CoCo crisis from Credit Suisse and Rising Inflation?
March 22, 2023
Just how vulnerable are banks to further contagion and crisis? With inflation still running loose, central banks still set to hike, while consumer and corporate pressures mount, the banking crisis may only just have started.Read More »
CoCos, AT1s – Proved Right at Last!
March 21, 2023
The “rescue” of Credit Suisse, thereby averting a European banking crisis, is getting less comment than the nixing of its $17.5 bln of CoCo Bonds. I’ve been warning about CoCos since 2011. Finally I got something right!Read More »
The War Between Market Stability and Chaos hots up – How will it play?
March 17, 2023
Central Banks face a mighty challenge persuading markets and depositors the banking system is stable. The war between chaos and order in markets has turned hot. At stake is the stability and future of the global economy. Anyone for the last few choc ice?Read More »
Credit Suisse – How Bad and What Next?
March 16, 2023
Credit Suisse is in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. Confidence in the bank is zero. The Swiss National Bank has provided a backstop, but a sale looks likely of the bank that just can’t get it right.Read More »
What future for Banks, and the UK budget
March 15, 2023
SVB is done and dusted, and its time to ask questions, like: what is the future for banks? What do they do, and how do they do it? Are they at an evolutionary dead end? Probably. And the sheer joy that is the UK budget… stronger coffee please.Read More »