Jon Quast

This is what is happening.

But I wanna take a step back and just kind of advocate, ask some questions on behalf of our listeners.

I think if I'm a listener to this show regularly, if I'm listening to Motley Fool Money, I'm hearing from the analysts regularly to take a long-term view with investing.

I wanna take a long-term approach

to buying stocks, investing in these companies, and yet we're seeing something so consequential.

Oil, energy prices, this is very consequential to the global economy, and they are behaving somewhat erratically.

Social media posts can come out and cause trillions of dollars of change in the stock market.

I think I'm asking, if I'm a listener, how am I supposed to take a long-term view when things can change so quickly on a day-to-day basis?

Any thoughts that either of you can provide to our listeners that helps them understand how to contextualize this?

Well, whatever happens, you can be sure that we will join you along for the roller coaster ride.

After the break, we're going to talk about Elon Musk, and he's anything but subtle.

He gave the investing community plenty of buzz over the weekend.

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Welcome back to Motley Fool Money with the Hidden Gems team.

So Elon Musk did his best Bonnie Raitt impression over the weekend.

He said, let's give him something to talk about.

He held an event in Austin on Saturday to talk about something his companies are launching called TerraFab.

Rachel, what is TerraFab?

Yeah, it was so interesting to hear Elon talking about how essentially they want to buy so much semiconductor products from their partners, but the partners just aren't making enough to meet their needs.

So they're going to take it on themselves with this ambitious project.