Deer Park’s Burg Backs Up Tesla Barbs With Huge Short Bets

Bloomberg2022-08-20

While Elon Musk has plenty of Wall Street detractors, Scott Burg may be the first distressed-bond manager to make a multibillion-dollar options bet that Musk’s Tesla Inc. will be “squashed like a bug....

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