At Christmas, he told Americans that a 20 percent rout made stocks a buying opportunity and they notched the best start to a year in three decades.
Tesla shares have never had a worse start to a year than in 2019 and Elon Musk is paying the biggest price as Wall Street has grown skeptical.
On the surface, it’s a strange year to be giving up. The S&P 500 is up 11% in less than six months and sits not too far off a record.
Choose your poison: "inverted yield curve" or "trade war tensions." Either way, the real danger investors face is thinking it's "different this time."