Muskism

Elon Musk’s Endgame

The Ezra Klein Show, 30 October 2026. The book comes up at 2 min 49 sec in.

Quinn Slobodian, who co-authored Muskism with Ben Tarnoff, draws on the book throughout the episode. He introduces the concept of 'financial fabulism' — Musk projecting infinite future revenues rather than current fundamentals — to explain the leap from $39 billion to a trillion dollars. He also notes that conversations in Europe about Muskism were more pragmatic than in the United States, centring on a three-R strategy of regulation, replacement, and reimagining.

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