Liam Denning, Columnist

Elon Musk’s Crazily Banal Week

From overbidding on Twitter to becoming a Republican to settling a sexual-harassment claim, he’s acted the part of a garden-variety mogul.

May 21, 2022 at 8:00 AM EDT

By Liam Denning

Liam Denning is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy. A former banker, he edited the Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street column and wrote the Financial Times’s Lex column.

Early this week, the mogul at the Met gala.
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And so, we reach the end of another week of drama in the Elon Musk show. But what really stands out about this one is how drearily banal it was.

Think of it reduced to a few headlines, just as the man himself reduces it to (so many, many) tweets.

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