{"id":26112,"date":"2020-08-20T12:39:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T11:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=26112"},"modified":"2020-08-20T12:40:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T11:40:01","slug":"how-to-make-10-billion-in-two-days-by-doing-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=26112","title":{"rendered":"How to make \u00a310 billion in two days by doing nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Does this sound impossible and crazy? Well, it is possible but it is crazy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For most people around the world, the coronavirus global pandemic has been a terrible experience. Even if you stayed alive, even if you didn&#8217;t actually catch the virus, there&#8217;s a good chance that your business has gone bust or your job has disappeared or, at best, that your business or your job is more insecure than you&#8217;ve even known.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, however, stock markets &#8211; especially in the United States &#8211; are behaving as if nothing terrible is happening. In fact, they&#8217;re racing up and up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, if you happen to be Elon Musk, founder and part-owner of the Tesla car company, you&#8217;ve seen your wealth increase by more than $13.3 billion (around \u00a310 billion) in just two days of trading as explained <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2020\/aug\/19\/elon-musk-becomes-worlds-fourth-richest-man-on-tesla-boom\">here<\/a>. Musk had to do nothing to achieve this. Even he thinks the share price is too high. And he&#8217;s still only the fourth richest man in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does this sound impossible and crazy? Well, it is possible but it is crazy. For most people around the world, the coronavirus global pandemic has been a terrible experience. Even if you stayed alive, even if you didn&#8217;t actually catch the virus, there&#8217;s a good chance that your business has gone bust or your job [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-current-affairs","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26114,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26112\/revisions\/26114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}