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Neil Freiman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2558 total appearances

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Morning Brew Daily
Markets Cheer for TACO Trade Return & Ryanair vs. Musk is Good for Biz

It shows that the progressive wing and President Trump have similar populist economic policies.

Morning Brew Daily
Markets Cheer for TACO Trade Return & Ryanair vs. Musk is Good for Biz

Yeah, it looks like Lisa Cook will keep her job for now.

Morning Brew Daily
Markets Cheer for TACO Trade Return & Ryanair vs. Musk is Good for Biz

Moving on to more prosaic matters.

Morning Brew Daily
Markets Cheer for TACO Trade Return & Ryanair vs. Musk is Good for Biz

We've got a good old CEO beef.

Morning Brew Daily
Markets Cheer for TACO Trade Return & Ryanair vs. Musk is Good for Biz

The corporate bosses in question, Elon Musk and Michael O'Leary, the Irishman who leads Ryanair, Europe's largest budget airline.

Morning Brew Daily
Markets Cheer for TACO Trade Return & Ryanair vs. Musk is Good for Biz

These two started going at it last week when O'Leary said that his airline would not install Elon Starlink Wi-Fi on its fleet of planes because the antenna you need to beam Wi-Fi to passengers will

Morning Brew Daily
Markets Cheer for TACO Trade Return & Ryanair vs. Musk is Good for Biz

would increase drag and cost Ryanair an extra $250 million in fuel costs a year.

Morning Brew Daily
Markets Cheer for TACO Trade Return & Ryanair vs. Musk is Good for Biz

Elon could not let this go, saying O'Leary was misinformed.

Morning Brew Daily
Markets Cheer for TACO Trade Return & Ryanair vs. Musk is Good for Biz

Then O'Leary went all in, saying that Musk knows nothing about flight or drag and called his ex-platform a cesspit.

Morning Brew Daily
Markets Cheer for TACO Trade Return & Ryanair vs. Musk is Good for Biz

The floodgates were open.

Morning Brew Daily
Markets Cheer for TACO Trade Return & Ryanair vs. Musk is Good for Biz

Musk called O'Leary an utter idiot and urged for his firing.

Morning Brew Daily
Markets Cheer for TACO Trade Return & Ryanair vs. Musk is Good for Biz

After a few more barbs of each of these guys calling each other idiots, Musk polled his Twitter followers whether he should buy Ryanair so that he could sack O'Leary.

Morning Brew Daily
Markets Cheer for TACO Trade Return & Ryanair vs. Musk is Good for Biz

TBD on whether a takeover offer will come.

Morning Brew Daily
Markets Cheer for TACO Trade Return & Ryanair vs. Musk is Good for Biz

Toby, we're talking about two of the most outspoken brash CEOs in the game right now, Elon and O'Leary, who once floated the idea of selling standing seats on his planes.

Morning Brew Daily
Markets Cheer for TACO Trade Return & Ryanair vs. Musk is Good for Biz

Their social media spat may seem a little silly, but ever the marketer, O'Leary has managed to turn this free publicity into business gold.

Morning Brew Daily
Markets Cheer for TACO Trade Return & Ryanair vs. Musk is Good for Biz

They're offering 100,000 seats at about $20 a pop.

Morning Brew Daily
Markets Cheer for TACO Trade Return & Ryanair vs. Musk is Good for Biz

And in the same press conference, he said that bookings have risen 2% to 3% in the aftermath of

Morning Brew Daily
Markets Cheer for TACO Trade Return & Ryanair vs. Musk is Good for Biz

of the social media spat between he and Elon Musk.

Morning Brew Daily
Markets Cheer for TACO Trade Return & Ryanair vs. Musk is Good for Biz

So he said, O'Leary said, I'm very happy to continue the controversy.

Morning Brew Daily
Markets Cheer for TACO Trade Return & Ryanair vs. Musk is Good for Biz

If it helps to boost Ryanair sales, you can insult me all day, any day.