19 points
He has credit and idiots willing to give it to him.
For which they usually use their stocks as collateral, right?
2 points
Read the first sentence “Elon, like trump, has no money.”
That’s objectively untrue, he has money tied up in non liquid assets that he can sell at whatever their retained value is.
What he’s using that for in terms of collateral is irrelevant when he absolutely has plenty of money waiting to be returned to his bank the moment he gets tired of running businesses.