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Thanks @Xerxes I guess Tata has more to do to turn Air India around.

I think both Trump and Musk had hinted to a exit at the end of 130 days.

Thanks @Xerxes. Have you flown Air India recently? Any thoughts on their service and the condition of their aircraft?

Thanks @Spekulatius

Why?

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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/berkshire-dismisses-false-reports-buffett-191724855.html Berkshire dismisses 'false' reports on Buffett comments after Trump shares video (Reuters) - Berkshire Hathaway said on Friday that reports on social media regarding comments allegedly made by its chairman are "false," after Donald Trump's account on Truth Social shared a video suggesting that Warren Buffett endorsed the U.S. president's economic policies. The video, posted by a user named AmericanPapaBear, said Trump was intentionally "crashing" the market to force the U.S. Federal Reserve to lower interest rates while making stocks more affordable to middle-class investors. "This is why Warren Buffett just said Trump is making the best economic moves he's seen in 50 years," the video said. Berkshire said in a statement: "There are reports currently circulating on social media (including Twitter, Facebook and Tik Tok) regarding comments allegedly made by Warren E. Buffett. All such reports are false." Buffett told CNBC that it was important to quickly knock down misinformation, and that he is not talking to anybody about the markets, the economy and tariffs between now and Berkshire's annual shareholder meeting on May 3 in Omaha, Nebraska.

Good one. Thanks @Saluki

Not a defense contractor, nevertheless. https://www.wsj.com/articles/deloitte-laying-off-u-s-consultants-after-government-crackdown-on-costs-2e6fa6a0 Deloitte to Lay Off U.S. Consultants After Government Cost Crackdown Federal government continues to challenge firms’ contracts, forcing them to justify prices, sources say Deloitte is cutting U.S. workers in its consulting business after the federal government demanded it find ways to shrink the cost of government projects it is working on. The company is among the largest U.S. consulting firms to the federal government. The Big Four accounting firm didn’t specify how many employees would be targeted. “Modest personnel actions” would be taken in the coming weeks based on government clients’ evolving needs, the company said. Deloitte also said voluntary employee turnover had slowed down. Since more consultants had stayed in their jobs in recent months, that contributed to the need to reduce its workforce, according to a U.S. spokesman. Overall demand for Deloitte’s advisory services remains strong, he added.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/technology/eu-penalties-x-elon-musk.html E.U. Prepares Major Penalties Against Elon Musk’s X European regulators are considering fining X more than $1 billion, after weighing the risks of further antagonizing Mr. Musk and President Trump.

And thanks to you too @Viking

Good one @gfp. Thanks for the post.

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Commercials might not be required. Elon is the brand ambassador for Tesla and the stickers

Neither will many in the US, some of whom might return to power....in my opinion.

Elon is good for business https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/20250326100/this-guy-makes-over-100000-a-month-selling-anti-elon-musk-stickers-for-teslas

And the Fox News interview referenced above

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/31/trump-hints-musk-doge-end-of-the-road-00262675 Trump hints that Musk and DOGE may be coming to the end of the road “At some point Elon’s gonna want to go back to his company,” the president said. President Donald Trump hinted Monday that his close ally Musk may have to go back to running his companies full time and that the tumultuous mission of DOGE will have been accomplished after firing tens of thousands of government employees. “I think he’s amazing but I also think he’s got a big company to run and so at some point he’s going to be going back,” Trump said of the Tesla CEO. “He wants to. I’d keep him as long as I could keep him.” Musk appeared to set the stage for his departure at the 130-day mark in an interview with Fox News last week, saying “I think we will have accomplished most of the work required to reduce the deficit by a trillion dollars within that time frame.”

+1. It seems there are good reasons for the recent push for peace. Thanks for posting @Pelagic

Thanks for posting this @DooDiligence

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/03/30/doge-privatize-government-usps-trump/ DOGE wants businesses to run government services ‘as much as possible’ Elon Musk’s effort is pushing privatization — a longtime goal for conservatives and for Silicon Valley alike — across federal agencies Mail delivery. Real estate. Foreign aid grants. The Trump administration is moving to privatize a sweeping number of government functions and assets — a long-standing Republican goal that’s being catalyzed by billionaire Elon Musk. Examples are popping up across Washington and in proposals from President Donald Trump’s allies, though the plans are various stages of development and, in some cases, have already encountered resistance. At the DOGE-allied General Services Administration, officials are quietly moving ahead with a push to sell hundreds of publicly owned buildings to private companies — which can then lease them back to the government. At the Postal Service, a plan for full privatization appears to have lost steam after facing pushback and legal hurdles. But private firms are preparing for a piecemeal government effort to outsource mail and package handling and long-haul trucking routes, while off-loading leases for unprofitable post offices. At the Interior Department, Secretary Doug Burgum has proposed allowing private developers to build on federal lands across the West. A Wall Street investor nominated to run the International Development Finance Corporation, has suggested redirecting a large portion of the $40 billion budget of the shuttered U.S. Agency for International Development to investors, start-ups and companies that work in developing countries. The military contractor Erik Prince has pushed to turn over defense and immigration enforcement functions to private security firms, at one point pitching U.S. officials on a plan to execute operations in Africa. Traditional Republicans have long argued that private companies can do a better job of managing government services than civil servants. But Musk and his Silicon Valley associates want to push the idea much further than the mainstream GOP. The tech crowd argues that entrenched corporations that historically have benefited from government largesse are as much a problem as government itself. They say “scrappy builders” from the tech industry — along with a leaner start-up mindset and superior technology — can rework government processes wholesale, rather than merely outsourcing the same work. People in Musk’s orbit view companies that have historically done business with the government as “stagnant” and “monopolistic,”. The Silicon Valley way of embracing privatization would be to first make information public and have a more rigorous open bidding process for contracts. The administration is also laying the groundwork to sell potentially hundreds of federal buildings to private companies, who can then lease them back to the government.