Ignore Jeff Bezos Going to Space. Tesla’s Elon Musk Is the Real Winner

Barrons2021-07-21

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DavvYap
2021-07-22
DavvYap
[开心]
4e6e78ce
2021-07-22
4e6e78ce
Interesting way of thinking of this. But both space launches were great to watch
LHJarsenal
2021-07-21
LHJarsenal
Like pls.
CIG
2021-07-21
CIG
Ya, I like Musk.
BinLong
2021-07-21
BinLong
SpaceX is still the top dog in the commercial space flight.
miyakos
2021-07-21
miyakos
Yes

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The Space Shuttle cost about $450 million a mission, according to NASA’s numbers. The orbiter itself—the spacecraft on the back of the rockets—cost about $1.7 billion. Ultimately, a generation of investing in higher-than-average cost space shuttle technology left America with movies such as Space Camp, U.S. taxpayers with a little more debt, and the lack of astronaut carrying domestic space launch capabilities for a decade.\nThat’s changed now, but it has little to do with Bezos or Virgin Galactic’s (SPCE)Richard Branson.Instead, space lovers should thank Tesla (TSLA) and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. He, like other billionaires, has expressed lofty goals to make humanity a multi-planetary species. Musk however isn’t going into space on a tourist flight. He’s the one that brought launch capabilities back to America by pioneering the use of reusable rockets. 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The billionaire space race is entertainment for investors and little more. It’s the modern equivalent of a huge baroque garden or a Victorian menagerie complete with wild animals from India.</p>\n<p>(The post-launch press conference included its own menagerie of a sort. The New Shepard crew showed off a collection of items carried on the flight including a piece of a Wright brothers plane, a medallion from a 19th-century hot air balloon, and a pair of Amelia Earhart’s flight goggles.)</p>\n<p>Rich people spending money has always been a thing, and sometimes it benefits everyone else. People can still visit the gardens at Versailles. They are impressive, even inspiring.</p>\n<p>Everyone, including Bezos, knows the personal rocket company business is ripe for criticism. The Amazon founder admits critics of space tourism are largely right. Still, space supporters point to the potential benefits of pushing technological boundaries. The world, after all, might end up with superfast commercial jets or flying cars a generation or more down the road.</p>\n<p>But the “to be sure” of the space tourism saga isn’t the potential trickle-down technological benefits from billionaire space dalliances. Long-term technological enhancements are the theoretical reason any mania can be positive for society. The dot.com era, for instance, left us with Amazon (ticker: AMZN) and more widespread internet access.</p>\n<p>Not all manias are so giving though. The Financial Crisis was driven by financial technology—collateralized debt obligations and credit default swaps. No one is thanking their lucky stars for those products. There is no guarantee manias result in useful technology. Just look at the most recent financial innovation of zero-commission trades. It’s given us meme-stocks.</p>\n<p>But if the space race has done anything, it’s made traveling to the stars cheaper than it’s ever been. The Space Shuttle cost about $450 million a mission, according to NASA’s numbers. The orbiter itself—the spacecraft on the back of the rockets—cost about $1.7 billion. Ultimately, a generation of investing in higher-than-average cost space shuttle technology left America with movies such as Space Camp, U.S. taxpayers with a little more debt, and the lack of astronaut carrying domestic space launch capabilities for a decade.</p>\n<p>That’s changed now, but it has little to do with Bezos or Virgin Galactic’s (SPCE)Richard Branson.Instead, space lovers should thank Tesla (TSLA) and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. He, like other billionaires, has expressed lofty goals to make humanity a multi-planetary species. Musk however isn’t going into space on a tourist flight. He’s the one that brought launch capabilities back to America by pioneering the use of reusable rockets. 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It’s the modern equivalent of a huge baroque garden or a Victorian menagerie complete with wild animals from India.\n(The post-launch press conference included its own menagerie of a sort. The New Shepard crew showed off a collection of items carried on the flight including a piece of a Wright brothers plane, a medallion from a 19th-century hot air balloon, and a pair of Amelia Earhart’s flight goggles.)\nRich people spending money has always been a thing, and sometimes it benefits everyone else. People can still visit the gardens at Versailles. They are impressive, even inspiring.\nEveryone, including Bezos, knows the personal rocket company business is ripe for criticism. The Amazon founder admits critics of space tourism are largely right. Still, space supporters point to the potential benefits of pushing technological boundaries. The world, after all, might end up with superfast commercial jets or flying cars a generation or more down the road.\nBut the “to be sure” of the space tourism saga isn’t the potential trickle-down technological benefits from billionaire space dalliances. Long-term technological enhancements are the theoretical reason any mania can be positive for society. The dot.com era, for instance, left us with Amazon (ticker: AMZN) and more widespread internet access.\nNot all manias are so giving though. The Financial Crisis was driven by financial technology—collateralized debt obligations and credit default swaps. No one is thanking their lucky stars for those products. There is no guarantee manias result in useful technology. Just look at the most recent financial innovation of zero-commission trades. It’s given us meme-stocks.\nBut if the space race has done anything, it’s made traveling to the stars cheaper than it’s ever been. The Space Shuttle cost about $450 million a mission, according to NASA’s numbers. The orbiter itself—the spacecraft on the back of the rockets—cost about $1.7 billion. Ultimately, a generation of investing in higher-than-average cost space shuttle technology left America with movies such as Space Camp, U.S. taxpayers with a little more debt, and the lack of astronaut carrying domestic space launch capabilities for a decade.\nThat’s changed now, but it has little to do with Bezos or Virgin Galactic’s (SPCE)Richard Branson.Instead, space lovers should thank Tesla (TSLA) and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. He, like other billionaires, has expressed lofty goals to make humanity a multi-planetary species. Musk however isn’t going into space on a tourist flight. He’s the one that brought launch capabilities back to America by pioneering the use of reusable rockets. It is ferrying NASA astronauts to the International Space Station while launching hundreds of small satellites that offer space-based Wi-Fi to clients around the globe. Partly as a result of that decision, SpaceX is worth an estimated $74 billion in private markets.\nCompare that to Virgin Galactic, which is worth about $7 billion after creating what Canaccord analyst Ken Herbert described as “ Disney for the 1% of the 1%.”\nThat sounds negative, but Herbert rates Galactic shares Buy. He believes clients should put the stock in their portfolios. And his $48 target price values Galactic at roughly $11.5 billion. There might just be a long-term business in space tourism.\nThat illustrates the real “to be sure” of a billionaire space story. If Bezos, or Branson, wants to build an organization to take them to space, so be it. Those are high-paying jobs for bright engineers. Billionaires can do what they want with their money.\nNot even Amazon’s stock seems to care all that much about Bezos’s successful flight. Shares closed up about 0.7% on Tuesday, while stock in Virgin Galactic dropped 1.3%. Tesla stock rose 2.2%, rising for the second consecutive day in the run-up to reporting second-quarter numbers on July 26. The S&P 500 gained 1.5%, rebounding from Monday’s Covid-19 induced selloff.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"CN"},{"id":176431534,"gmtCreate":1626911563128,"gmtModify":1633769903521,"author":{"id":"4087351235415740","authorId":"4087351235415740","name":"4e6e78ce","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"authorIdStr":"4087351235415740","idStr":"4087351235415740"},"htmlText":"Interesting way of thinking of this. 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Tesla’s Elon Musk Is the Real Winner","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1128230365","media":"Barrons","summary":"Investors usually want to know what the most important story of the day is, the thing responsible for driving stocks with the potential to become an investing theme that drives returns for months or years.Jeff Bezos going into space is not that thing.Sometimes, that one big thing is obvious. On Monday, it was Covid-19. The S&P 500 dropped 1.6%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than 2%. And for good reason: The Covid-19 variants are a big deal, even if the market’s drop proves to be ","content":"<p>Investors usually want to know what the most important story of the day is, the thing responsible for driving stocks with the potential to become an investing theme that drives returns for months or years.</p>\n<p>Jeff Bezos&nbsp;going into space is not that thing.</p>\n<p>Sometimes, that one big thing is obvious. On Monday, it was Covid-19. The S&amp;P 500 dropped 1.6%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than 2%. And for good reason: The Covid-19 variants are a big deal, even if the market’s drop proves to be another blip on the way to higher returns.</p>\n<p>Sometimes, though, investors need to know what they shouldn’t bother to care about, too. Do you know what today’s least significant story is? Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos going into space.</p>\n<p>The successful flight was a little anti-climactic for livestream watchers. There were a lot of “woohoos” and “awesomes” uttered by the crew, even a few “amazings.” Still, 82-year old newly minted astronaut Wally Funk said “It was only about five minutes.”</p>\n<p>You wouldn’t know it from the coverage, of which I’ve been a big part. I’m addicted to stories about billionaires spending their money, a little like People magazine is addicted to the Kardashians.</p>\n<p>The Kardashian analogy is apt. The billionaire space race is entertainment for investors and little more. It’s the modern equivalent of a huge baroque garden or a Victorian menagerie complete with wild animals from India.</p>\n<p>(The post-launch press conference included its own menagerie of a sort. The New Shepard crew showed off a collection of items carried on the flight including a piece of a Wright brothers plane, a medallion from a 19th-century hot air balloon, and a pair of Amelia Earhart’s flight goggles.)</p>\n<p>Rich people spending money has always been a thing, and sometimes it benefits everyone else. People can still visit the gardens at Versailles. They are impressive, even inspiring.</p>\n<p>Everyone, including Bezos, knows the personal rocket company business is ripe for criticism. The Amazon founder admits critics of space tourism are largely right. Still, space supporters point to the potential benefits of pushing technological boundaries. The world, after all, might end up with superfast commercial jets or flying cars a generation or more down the road.</p>\n<p>But the “to be sure” of the space tourism saga isn’t the potential trickle-down technological benefits from billionaire space dalliances. Long-term technological enhancements are the theoretical reason any mania can be positive for society. The dot.com era, for instance, left us with Amazon (ticker: AMZN) and more widespread internet access.</p>\n<p>Not all manias are so giving though. The Financial Crisis was driven by financial technology—collateralized debt obligations and credit default swaps. No one is thanking their lucky stars for those products. There is no guarantee manias result in useful technology. Just look at the most recent financial innovation of zero-commission trades. It’s given us meme-stocks.</p>\n<p>But if the space race has done anything, it’s made traveling to the stars cheaper than it’s ever been. The Space Shuttle cost about $450 million a mission, according to NASA’s numbers. The orbiter itself—the spacecraft on the back of the rockets—cost about $1.7 billion. Ultimately, a generation of investing in higher-than-average cost space shuttle technology left America with movies such as Space Camp, U.S. taxpayers with a little more debt, and the lack of astronaut carrying domestic space launch capabilities for a decade.</p>\n<p>That’s changed now, but it has little to do with Bezos or Virgin Galactic’s (SPCE)Richard Branson.Instead, space lovers should thank Tesla (TSLA) and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. He, like other billionaires, has expressed lofty goals to make humanity a multi-planetary species. Musk however isn’t going into space on a tourist flight. He’s the one that brought launch capabilities back to America by pioneering the use of reusable rockets. It is ferrying NASA astronauts to the International Space Station while launching hundreds of small satellites that offer space-based Wi-Fi to clients around the globe. Partly as a result of that decision, SpaceX is worth an estimated $74 billion in private markets.</p>\n<p>Compare that to Virgin Galactic, which is worth about $7 billion after creating what Canaccord analyst Ken Herbert described as “ Disney for the 1% of the 1%.”</p>\n<p>That sounds negative, but Herbert rates Galactic shares Buy. He believes clients should put the stock in their portfolios. And his $48 target price values Galactic at roughly $11.5 billion. There might just be a long-term business in space tourism.</p>\n<p>That illustrates the real “to be sure” of a billionaire space story. If Bezos, or Branson, wants to build an organization to take them to space, so be it. Those are high-paying jobs for bright engineers. Billionaires can do what they want with their money.</p>\n<p>Not even Amazon’s stock seems to care all that much about Bezos’s successful flight. Shares closed up about 0.7% on Tuesday, while stock in Virgin Galactic dropped 1.3%. Tesla stock rose 2.2%, rising for the second consecutive day in the run-up to reporting second-quarter numbers on July 26. The S&amp;P 500 gained 1.5%, rebounding from Monday’s Covid-19 induced selloff.</p>","source":"lsy1601382232898","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Ignore Jeff Bezos Going to Space. 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On Monday, it was Covid-19. The S&P 500 dropped 1.6%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than 2%. And for good reason: The Covid-19 variants are a big deal, even if the market’s drop proves to be another blip on the way to higher returns.\nSometimes, though, investors need to know what they shouldn’t bother to care about, too. Do you know what today’s least significant story is? Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos going into space.\nThe successful flight was a little anti-climactic for livestream watchers. There were a lot of “woohoos” and “awesomes” uttered by the crew, even a few “amazings.” Still, 82-year old newly minted astronaut Wally Funk said “It was only about five minutes.”\nYou wouldn’t know it from the coverage, of which I’ve been a big part. I’m addicted to stories about billionaires spending their money, a little like People magazine is addicted to the Kardashians.\nThe Kardashian analogy is apt. The billionaire space race is entertainment for investors and little more. It’s the modern equivalent of a huge baroque garden or a Victorian menagerie complete with wild animals from India.\n(The post-launch press conference included its own menagerie of a sort. The New Shepard crew showed off a collection of items carried on the flight including a piece of a Wright brothers plane, a medallion from a 19th-century hot air balloon, and a pair of Amelia Earhart’s flight goggles.)\nRich people spending money has always been a thing, and sometimes it benefits everyone else. People can still visit the gardens at Versailles. They are impressive, even inspiring.\nEveryone, including Bezos, knows the personal rocket company business is ripe for criticism. The Amazon founder admits critics of space tourism are largely right. Still, space supporters point to the potential benefits of pushing technological boundaries. The world, after all, might end up with superfast commercial jets or flying cars a generation or more down the road.\nBut the “to be sure” of the space tourism saga isn’t the potential trickle-down technological benefits from billionaire space dalliances. Long-term technological enhancements are the theoretical reason any mania can be positive for society. The dot.com era, for instance, left us with Amazon (ticker: AMZN) and more widespread internet access.\nNot all manias are so giving though. The Financial Crisis was driven by financial technology—collateralized debt obligations and credit default swaps. No one is thanking their lucky stars for those products. There is no guarantee manias result in useful technology. Just look at the most recent financial innovation of zero-commission trades. It’s given us meme-stocks.\nBut if the space race has done anything, it’s made traveling to the stars cheaper than it’s ever been. The Space Shuttle cost about $450 million a mission, according to NASA’s numbers. The orbiter itself—the spacecraft on the back of the rockets—cost about $1.7 billion. Ultimately, a generation of investing in higher-than-average cost space shuttle technology left America with movies such as Space Camp, U.S. taxpayers with a little more debt, and the lack of astronaut carrying domestic space launch capabilities for a decade.\nThat’s changed now, but it has little to do with Bezos or Virgin Galactic’s (SPCE)Richard Branson.Instead, space lovers should thank Tesla (TSLA) and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. He, like other billionaires, has expressed lofty goals to make humanity a multi-planetary species. Musk however isn’t going into space on a tourist flight. He’s the one that brought launch capabilities back to America by pioneering the use of reusable rockets. It is ferrying NASA astronauts to the International Space Station while launching hundreds of small satellites that offer space-based Wi-Fi to clients around the globe. Partly as a result of that decision, SpaceX is worth an estimated $74 billion in private markets.\nCompare that to Virgin Galactic, which is worth about $7 billion after creating what Canaccord analyst Ken Herbert described as “ Disney for the 1% of the 1%.”\nThat sounds negative, but Herbert rates Galactic shares Buy. He believes clients should put the stock in their portfolios. And his $48 target price values Galactic at roughly $11.5 billion. There might just be a long-term business in space tourism.\nThat illustrates the real “to be sure” of a billionaire space story. If Bezos, or Branson, wants to build an organization to take them to space, so be it. Those are high-paying jobs for bright engineers. Billionaires can do what they want with their money.\nNot even Amazon’s stock seems to care all that much about Bezos’s successful flight. Shares closed up about 0.7% on Tuesday, while stock in Virgin Galactic dropped 1.3%. Tesla stock rose 2.2%, rising for the second consecutive day in the run-up to reporting second-quarter numbers on July 26. 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The S&amp;P 500 dropped 1.6%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than 2%. And for good reason: The Covid-19 variants are a big deal, even if the market’s drop proves to be another blip on the way to higher returns.</p>\n<p>Sometimes, though, investors need to know what they shouldn’t bother to care about, too. Do you know what today’s least significant story is? Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos going into space.</p>\n<p>The successful flight was a little anti-climactic for livestream watchers. There were a lot of “woohoos” and “awesomes” uttered by the crew, even a few “amazings.” Still, 82-year old newly minted astronaut Wally Funk said “It was only about five minutes.”</p>\n<p>You wouldn’t know it from the coverage, of which I’ve been a big part. I’m addicted to stories about billionaires spending their money, a little like People magazine is addicted to the Kardashians.</p>\n<p>The Kardashian analogy is apt. The billionaire space race is entertainment for investors and little more. It’s the modern equivalent of a huge baroque garden or a Victorian menagerie complete with wild animals from India.</p>\n<p>(The post-launch press conference included its own menagerie of a sort. The New Shepard crew showed off a collection of items carried on the flight including a piece of a Wright brothers plane, a medallion from a 19th-century hot air balloon, and a pair of Amelia Earhart’s flight goggles.)</p>\n<p>Rich people spending money has always been a thing, and sometimes it benefits everyone else. People can still visit the gardens at Versailles. They are impressive, even inspiring.</p>\n<p>Everyone, including Bezos, knows the personal rocket company business is ripe for criticism. The Amazon founder admits critics of space tourism are largely right. Still, space supporters point to the potential benefits of pushing technological boundaries. The world, after all, might end up with superfast commercial jets or flying cars a generation or more down the road.</p>\n<p>But the “to be sure” of the space tourism saga isn’t the potential trickle-down technological benefits from billionaire space dalliances. Long-term technological enhancements are the theoretical reason any mania can be positive for society. The dot.com era, for instance, left us with Amazon (ticker: AMZN) and more widespread internet access.</p>\n<p>Not all manias are so giving though. The Financial Crisis was driven by financial technology—collateralized debt obligations and credit default swaps. No one is thanking their lucky stars for those products. There is no guarantee manias result in useful technology. Just look at the most recent financial innovation of zero-commission trades. It’s given us meme-stocks.</p>\n<p>But if the space race has done anything, it’s made traveling to the stars cheaper than it’s ever been. The Space Shuttle cost about $450 million a mission, according to NASA’s numbers. The orbiter itself—the spacecraft on the back of the rockets—cost about $1.7 billion. Ultimately, a generation of investing in higher-than-average cost space shuttle technology left America with movies such as Space Camp, U.S. taxpayers with a little more debt, and the lack of astronaut carrying domestic space launch capabilities for a decade.</p>\n<p>That’s changed now, but it has little to do with Bezos or Virgin Galactic’s (SPCE)Richard Branson.Instead, space lovers should thank Tesla (TSLA) and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. He, like other billionaires, has expressed lofty goals to make humanity a multi-planetary species. Musk however isn’t going into space on a tourist flight. He’s the one that brought launch capabilities back to America by pioneering the use of reusable rockets. It is ferrying NASA astronauts to the International Space Station while launching hundreds of small satellites that offer space-based Wi-Fi to clients around the globe. Partly as a result of that decision, SpaceX is worth an estimated $74 billion in private markets.</p>\n<p>Compare that to Virgin Galactic, which is worth about $7 billion after creating what Canaccord analyst Ken Herbert described as “ Disney for the 1% of the 1%.”</p>\n<p>That sounds negative, but Herbert rates Galactic shares Buy. He believes clients should put the stock in their portfolios. And his $48 target price values Galactic at roughly $11.5 billion. There might just be a long-term business in space tourism.</p>\n<p>That illustrates the real “to be sure” of a billionaire space story. If Bezos, or Branson, wants to build an organization to take them to space, so be it. Those are high-paying jobs for bright engineers. Billionaires can do what they want with their money.</p>\n<p>Not even Amazon’s stock seems to care all that much about Bezos’s successful flight. Shares closed up about 0.7% on Tuesday, while stock in Virgin Galactic dropped 1.3%. Tesla stock rose 2.2%, rising for the second consecutive day in the run-up to reporting second-quarter numbers on July 26. The S&amp;P 500 gained 1.5%, rebounding from Monday’s Covid-19 induced selloff.</p>","source":"lsy1601382232898","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Ignore Jeff Bezos Going to Space. 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Tesla’s Elon Musk Is the Real Winner\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-07-21 11:25 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.barrons.com/articles/amazon-jeff-bezos-space-tesla-elon-musk-spacex-51626783483?mod=hp_DAY_Theme_1_2><strong>Barrons</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Investors usually want to know what the most important story of the day is, the thing responsible for driving stocks with the potential to become an investing theme that drives returns for months or ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.barrons.com/articles/amazon-jeff-bezos-space-tesla-elon-musk-spacex-51626783483?mod=hp_DAY_Theme_1_2\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AMZN":"亚马逊","SPCE":"维珍银河","TSLA":"特斯拉"},"source_url":"https://www.barrons.com/articles/amazon-jeff-bezos-space-tesla-elon-musk-spacex-51626783483?mod=hp_DAY_Theme_1_2","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1128230365","content_text":"Investors usually want to know what the most important story of the day is, the thing responsible for driving stocks with the potential to become an investing theme that drives returns for months or years.\nJeff Bezos going into space is not that thing.\nSometimes, that one big thing is obvious. On Monday, it was Covid-19. The S&P 500 dropped 1.6%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than 2%. And for good reason: The Covid-19 variants are a big deal, even if the market’s drop proves to be another blip on the way to higher returns.\nSometimes, though, investors need to know what they shouldn’t bother to care about, too. Do you know what today’s least significant story is? Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos going into space.\nThe successful flight was a little anti-climactic for livestream watchers. There were a lot of “woohoos” and “awesomes” uttered by the crew, even a few “amazings.” Still, 82-year old newly minted astronaut Wally Funk said “It was only about five minutes.”\nYou wouldn’t know it from the coverage, of which I’ve been a big part. I’m addicted to stories about billionaires spending their money, a little like People magazine is addicted to the Kardashians.\nThe Kardashian analogy is apt. The billionaire space race is entertainment for investors and little more. It’s the modern equivalent of a huge baroque garden or a Victorian menagerie complete with wild animals from India.\n(The post-launch press conference included its own menagerie of a sort. The New Shepard crew showed off a collection of items carried on the flight including a piece of a Wright brothers plane, a medallion from a 19th-century hot air balloon, and a pair of Amelia Earhart’s flight goggles.)\nRich people spending money has always been a thing, and sometimes it benefits everyone else. People can still visit the gardens at Versailles. They are impressive, even inspiring.\nEveryone, including Bezos, knows the personal rocket company business is ripe for criticism. The Amazon founder admits critics of space tourism are largely right. Still, space supporters point to the potential benefits of pushing technological boundaries. The world, after all, might end up with superfast commercial jets or flying cars a generation or more down the road.\nBut the “to be sure” of the space tourism saga isn’t the potential trickle-down technological benefits from billionaire space dalliances. Long-term technological enhancements are the theoretical reason any mania can be positive for society. The dot.com era, for instance, left us with Amazon (ticker: AMZN) and more widespread internet access.\nNot all manias are so giving though. The Financial Crisis was driven by financial technology—collateralized debt obligations and credit default swaps. No one is thanking their lucky stars for those products. There is no guarantee manias result in useful technology. Just look at the most recent financial innovation of zero-commission trades. It’s given us meme-stocks.\nBut if the space race has done anything, it’s made traveling to the stars cheaper than it’s ever been. The Space Shuttle cost about $450 million a mission, according to NASA’s numbers. The orbiter itself—the spacecraft on the back of the rockets—cost about $1.7 billion. Ultimately, a generation of investing in higher-than-average cost space shuttle technology left America with movies such as Space Camp, U.S. taxpayers with a little more debt, and the lack of astronaut carrying domestic space launch capabilities for a decade.\nThat’s changed now, but it has little to do with Bezos or Virgin Galactic’s (SPCE)Richard Branson.Instead, space lovers should thank Tesla (TSLA) and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. He, like other billionaires, has expressed lofty goals to make humanity a multi-planetary species. Musk however isn’t going into space on a tourist flight. He’s the one that brought launch capabilities back to America by pioneering the use of reusable rockets. It is ferrying NASA astronauts to the International Space Station while launching hundreds of small satellites that offer space-based Wi-Fi to clients around the globe. Partly as a result of that decision, SpaceX is worth an estimated $74 billion in private markets.\nCompare that to Virgin Galactic, which is worth about $7 billion after creating what Canaccord analyst Ken Herbert described as “ Disney for the 1% of the 1%.”\nThat sounds negative, but Herbert rates Galactic shares Buy. He believes clients should put the stock in their portfolios. And his $48 target price values Galactic at roughly $11.5 billion. There might just be a long-term business in space tourism.\nThat illustrates the real “to be sure” of a billionaire space story. If Bezos, or Branson, wants to build an organization to take them to space, so be it. Those are high-paying jobs for bright engineers. Billionaires can do what they want with their money.\nNot even Amazon’s stock seems to care all that much about Bezos’s successful flight. Shares closed up about 0.7% on Tuesday, while stock in Virgin Galactic dropped 1.3%. Tesla stock rose 2.2%, rising for the second consecutive day in the run-up to reporting second-quarter numbers on July 26. 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Tesla’s Elon Musk Is the Real Winner","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1128230365","media":"Barrons","summary":"Investors usually want to know what the most important story of the day is, the thing responsible for driving stocks with the potential to become an investing theme that drives returns for months or years.Jeff Bezos going into space is not that thing.Sometimes, that one big thing is obvious. On Monday, it was Covid-19. The S&P 500 dropped 1.6%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than 2%. And for good reason: The Covid-19 variants are a big deal, even if the market’s drop proves to be ","content":"<p>Investors usually want to know what the most important story of the day is, the thing responsible for driving stocks with the potential to become an investing theme that drives returns for months or years.</p>\n<p>Jeff Bezos&nbsp;going into space is not that thing.</p>\n<p>Sometimes, that one big thing is obvious. On Monday, it was Covid-19. The S&amp;P 500 dropped 1.6%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than 2%. And for good reason: The Covid-19 variants are a big deal, even if the market’s drop proves to be another blip on the way to higher returns.</p>\n<p>Sometimes, though, investors need to know what they shouldn’t bother to care about, too. Do you know what today’s least significant story is? Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos going into space.</p>\n<p>The successful flight was a little anti-climactic for livestream watchers. There were a lot of “woohoos” and “awesomes” uttered by the crew, even a few “amazings.” Still, 82-year old newly minted astronaut Wally Funk said “It was only about five minutes.”</p>\n<p>You wouldn’t know it from the coverage, of which I’ve been a big part. I’m addicted to stories about billionaires spending their money, a little like People magazine is addicted to the Kardashians.</p>\n<p>The Kardashian analogy is apt. The billionaire space race is entertainment for investors and little more. It’s the modern equivalent of a huge baroque garden or a Victorian menagerie complete with wild animals from India.</p>\n<p>(The post-launch press conference included its own menagerie of a sort. The New Shepard crew showed off a collection of items carried on the flight including a piece of a Wright brothers plane, a medallion from a 19th-century hot air balloon, and a pair of Amelia Earhart’s flight goggles.)</p>\n<p>Rich people spending money has always been a thing, and sometimes it benefits everyone else. People can still visit the gardens at Versailles. They are impressive, even inspiring.</p>\n<p>Everyone, including Bezos, knows the personal rocket company business is ripe for criticism. The Amazon founder admits critics of space tourism are largely right. Still, space supporters point to the potential benefits of pushing technological boundaries. The world, after all, might end up with superfast commercial jets or flying cars a generation or more down the road.</p>\n<p>But the “to be sure” of the space tourism saga isn’t the potential trickle-down technological benefits from billionaire space dalliances. Long-term technological enhancements are the theoretical reason any mania can be positive for society. The dot.com era, for instance, left us with Amazon (ticker: AMZN) and more widespread internet access.</p>\n<p>Not all manias are so giving though. The Financial Crisis was driven by financial technology—collateralized debt obligations and credit default swaps. No one is thanking their lucky stars for those products. There is no guarantee manias result in useful technology. Just look at the most recent financial innovation of zero-commission trades. It’s given us meme-stocks.</p>\n<p>But if the space race has done anything, it’s made traveling to the stars cheaper than it’s ever been. The Space Shuttle cost about $450 million a mission, according to NASA’s numbers. The orbiter itself—the spacecraft on the back of the rockets—cost about $1.7 billion. Ultimately, a generation of investing in higher-than-average cost space shuttle technology left America with movies such as Space Camp, U.S. taxpayers with a little more debt, and the lack of astronaut carrying domestic space launch capabilities for a decade.</p>\n<p>That’s changed now, but it has little to do with Bezos or Virgin Galactic’s (SPCE)Richard Branson.Instead, space lovers should thank Tesla (TSLA) and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. He, like other billionaires, has expressed lofty goals to make humanity a multi-planetary species. Musk however isn’t going into space on a tourist flight. He’s the one that brought launch capabilities back to America by pioneering the use of reusable rockets. It is ferrying NASA astronauts to the International Space Station while launching hundreds of small satellites that offer space-based Wi-Fi to clients around the globe. Partly as a result of that decision, SpaceX is worth an estimated $74 billion in private markets.</p>\n<p>Compare that to Virgin Galactic, which is worth about $7 billion after creating what Canaccord analyst Ken Herbert described as “ Disney for the 1% of the 1%.”</p>\n<p>That sounds negative, but Herbert rates Galactic shares Buy. He believes clients should put the stock in their portfolios. And his $48 target price values Galactic at roughly $11.5 billion. There might just be a long-term business in space tourism.</p>\n<p>That illustrates the real “to be sure” of a billionaire space story. If Bezos, or Branson, wants to build an organization to take them to space, so be it. Those are high-paying jobs for bright engineers. Billionaires can do what they want with their money.</p>\n<p>Not even Amazon’s stock seems to care all that much about Bezos’s successful flight. Shares closed up about 0.7% on Tuesday, while stock in Virgin Galactic dropped 1.3%. Tesla stock rose 2.2%, rising for the second consecutive day in the run-up to reporting second-quarter numbers on July 26. The S&amp;P 500 gained 1.5%, rebounding from Monday’s Covid-19 induced selloff.</p>","source":"lsy1601382232898","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Ignore Jeff Bezos Going to Space. 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On Monday, it was Covid-19. The S&P 500 dropped 1.6%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than 2%. And for good reason: The Covid-19 variants are a big deal, even if the market’s drop proves to be another blip on the way to higher returns.\nSometimes, though, investors need to know what they shouldn’t bother to care about, too. Do you know what today’s least significant story is? Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos going into space.\nThe successful flight was a little anti-climactic for livestream watchers. There were a lot of “woohoos” and “awesomes” uttered by the crew, even a few “amazings.” Still, 82-year old newly minted astronaut Wally Funk said “It was only about five minutes.”\nYou wouldn’t know it from the coverage, of which I’ve been a big part. I’m addicted to stories about billionaires spending their money, a little like People magazine is addicted to the Kardashians.\nThe Kardashian analogy is apt. The billionaire space race is entertainment for investors and little more. It’s the modern equivalent of a huge baroque garden or a Victorian menagerie complete with wild animals from India.\n(The post-launch press conference included its own menagerie of a sort. The New Shepard crew showed off a collection of items carried on the flight including a piece of a Wright brothers plane, a medallion from a 19th-century hot air balloon, and a pair of Amelia Earhart’s flight goggles.)\nRich people spending money has always been a thing, and sometimes it benefits everyone else. People can still visit the gardens at Versailles. They are impressive, even inspiring.\nEveryone, including Bezos, knows the personal rocket company business is ripe for criticism. The Amazon founder admits critics of space tourism are largely right. Still, space supporters point to the potential benefits of pushing technological boundaries. The world, after all, might end up with superfast commercial jets or flying cars a generation or more down the road.\nBut the “to be sure” of the space tourism saga isn’t the potential trickle-down technological benefits from billionaire space dalliances. Long-term technological enhancements are the theoretical reason any mania can be positive for society. The dot.com era, for instance, left us with Amazon (ticker: AMZN) and more widespread internet access.\nNot all manias are so giving though. The Financial Crisis was driven by financial technology—collateralized debt obligations and credit default swaps. No one is thanking their lucky stars for those products. There is no guarantee manias result in useful technology. Just look at the most recent financial innovation of zero-commission trades. It’s given us meme-stocks.\nBut if the space race has done anything, it’s made traveling to the stars cheaper than it’s ever been. The Space Shuttle cost about $450 million a mission, according to NASA’s numbers. The orbiter itself—the spacecraft on the back of the rockets—cost about $1.7 billion. Ultimately, a generation of investing in higher-than-average cost space shuttle technology left America with movies such as Space Camp, U.S. taxpayers with a little more debt, and the lack of astronaut carrying domestic space launch capabilities for a decade.\nThat’s changed now, but it has little to do with Bezos or Virgin Galactic’s (SPCE)Richard Branson.Instead, space lovers should thank Tesla (TSLA) and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. He, like other billionaires, has expressed lofty goals to make humanity a multi-planetary species. Musk however isn’t going into space on a tourist flight. He’s the one that brought launch capabilities back to America by pioneering the use of reusable rockets. It is ferrying NASA astronauts to the International Space Station while launching hundreds of small satellites that offer space-based Wi-Fi to clients around the globe. Partly as a result of that decision, SpaceX is worth an estimated $74 billion in private markets.\nCompare that to Virgin Galactic, which is worth about $7 billion after creating what Canaccord analyst Ken Herbert described as “ Disney for the 1% of the 1%.”\nThat sounds negative, but Herbert rates Galactic shares Buy. He believes clients should put the stock in their portfolios. And his $48 target price values Galactic at roughly $11.5 billion. There might just be a long-term business in space tourism.\nThat illustrates the real “to be sure” of a billionaire space story. If Bezos, or Branson, wants to build an organization to take them to space, so be it. Those are high-paying jobs for bright engineers. Billionaires can do what they want with their money.\nNot even Amazon’s stock seems to care all that much about Bezos’s successful flight. Shares closed up about 0.7% on Tuesday, while stock in Virgin Galactic dropped 1.3%. Tesla stock rose 2.2%, rising for the second consecutive day in the run-up to reporting second-quarter numbers on July 26. 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The S&amp;P 500 dropped 1.6%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than 2%. And for good reason: The Covid-19 variants are a big deal, even if the market’s drop proves to be another blip on the way to higher returns.</p>\n<p>Sometimes, though, investors need to know what they shouldn’t bother to care about, too. Do you know what today’s least significant story is? Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos going into space.</p>\n<p>The successful flight was a little anti-climactic for livestream watchers. There were a lot of “woohoos” and “awesomes” uttered by the crew, even a few “amazings.” Still, 82-year old newly minted astronaut Wally Funk said “It was only about five minutes.”</p>\n<p>You wouldn’t know it from the coverage, of which I’ve been a big part. I’m addicted to stories about billionaires spending their money, a little like People magazine is addicted to the Kardashians.</p>\n<p>The Kardashian analogy is apt. The billionaire space race is entertainment for investors and little more. It’s the modern equivalent of a huge baroque garden or a Victorian menagerie complete with wild animals from India.</p>\n<p>(The post-launch press conference included its own menagerie of a sort. The New Shepard crew showed off a collection of items carried on the flight including a piece of a Wright brothers plane, a medallion from a 19th-century hot air balloon, and a pair of Amelia Earhart’s flight goggles.)</p>\n<p>Rich people spending money has always been a thing, and sometimes it benefits everyone else. People can still visit the gardens at Versailles. They are impressive, even inspiring.</p>\n<p>Everyone, including Bezos, knows the personal rocket company business is ripe for criticism. The Amazon founder admits critics of space tourism are largely right. Still, space supporters point to the potential benefits of pushing technological boundaries. The world, after all, might end up with superfast commercial jets or flying cars a generation or more down the road.</p>\n<p>But the “to be sure” of the space tourism saga isn’t the potential trickle-down technological benefits from billionaire space dalliances. Long-term technological enhancements are the theoretical reason any mania can be positive for society. The dot.com era, for instance, left us with Amazon (ticker: AMZN) and more widespread internet access.</p>\n<p>Not all manias are so giving though. The Financial Crisis was driven by financial technology—collateralized debt obligations and credit default swaps. No one is thanking their lucky stars for those products. There is no guarantee manias result in useful technology. Just look at the most recent financial innovation of zero-commission trades. It’s given us meme-stocks.</p>\n<p>But if the space race has done anything, it’s made traveling to the stars cheaper than it’s ever been. The Space Shuttle cost about $450 million a mission, according to NASA’s numbers. The orbiter itself—the spacecraft on the back of the rockets—cost about $1.7 billion. Ultimately, a generation of investing in higher-than-average cost space shuttle technology left America with movies such as Space Camp, U.S. taxpayers with a little more debt, and the lack of astronaut carrying domestic space launch capabilities for a decade.</p>\n<p>That’s changed now, but it has little to do with Bezos or Virgin Galactic’s (SPCE)Richard Branson.Instead, space lovers should thank Tesla (TSLA) and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. He, like other billionaires, has expressed lofty goals to make humanity a multi-planetary species. Musk however isn’t going into space on a tourist flight. He’s the one that brought launch capabilities back to America by pioneering the use of reusable rockets. It is ferrying NASA astronauts to the International Space Station while launching hundreds of small satellites that offer space-based Wi-Fi to clients around the globe. Partly as a result of that decision, SpaceX is worth an estimated $74 billion in private markets.</p>\n<p>Compare that to Virgin Galactic, which is worth about $7 billion after creating what Canaccord analyst Ken Herbert described as “ Disney for the 1% of the 1%.”</p>\n<p>That sounds negative, but Herbert rates Galactic shares Buy. He believes clients should put the stock in their portfolios. And his $48 target price values Galactic at roughly $11.5 billion. There might just be a long-term business in space tourism.</p>\n<p>That illustrates the real “to be sure” of a billionaire space story. If Bezos, or Branson, wants to build an organization to take them to space, so be it. Those are high-paying jobs for bright engineers. Billionaires can do what they want with their money.</p>\n<p>Not even Amazon’s stock seems to care all that much about Bezos’s successful flight. Shares closed up about 0.7% on Tuesday, while stock in Virgin Galactic dropped 1.3%. Tesla stock rose 2.2%, rising for the second consecutive day in the run-up to reporting second-quarter numbers on July 26. The S&amp;P 500 gained 1.5%, rebounding from Monday’s Covid-19 induced selloff.</p>","source":"lsy1601382232898","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Ignore Jeff Bezos Going to Space. 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On Monday, it was Covid-19. The S&P 500 dropped 1.6%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than 2%. And for good reason: The Covid-19 variants are a big deal, even if the market’s drop proves to be another blip on the way to higher returns.\nSometimes, though, investors need to know what they shouldn’t bother to care about, too. Do you know what today’s least significant story is? Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos going into space.\nThe successful flight was a little anti-climactic for livestream watchers. There were a lot of “woohoos” and “awesomes” uttered by the crew, even a few “amazings.” Still, 82-year old newly minted astronaut Wally Funk said “It was only about five minutes.”\nYou wouldn’t know it from the coverage, of which I’ve been a big part. I’m addicted to stories about billionaires spending their money, a little like People magazine is addicted to the Kardashians.\nThe Kardashian analogy is apt. The billionaire space race is entertainment for investors and little more. It’s the modern equivalent of a huge baroque garden or a Victorian menagerie complete with wild animals from India.\n(The post-launch press conference included its own menagerie of a sort. The New Shepard crew showed off a collection of items carried on the flight including a piece of a Wright brothers plane, a medallion from a 19th-century hot air balloon, and a pair of Amelia Earhart’s flight goggles.)\nRich people spending money has always been a thing, and sometimes it benefits everyone else. People can still visit the gardens at Versailles. They are impressive, even inspiring.\nEveryone, including Bezos, knows the personal rocket company business is ripe for criticism. The Amazon founder admits critics of space tourism are largely right. Still, space supporters point to the potential benefits of pushing technological boundaries. The world, after all, might end up with superfast commercial jets or flying cars a generation or more down the road.\nBut the “to be sure” of the space tourism saga isn’t the potential trickle-down technological benefits from billionaire space dalliances. Long-term technological enhancements are the theoretical reason any mania can be positive for society. The dot.com era, for instance, left us with Amazon (ticker: AMZN) and more widespread internet access.\nNot all manias are so giving though. The Financial Crisis was driven by financial technology—collateralized debt obligations and credit default swaps. No one is thanking their lucky stars for those products. There is no guarantee manias result in useful technology. Just look at the most recent financial innovation of zero-commission trades. It’s given us meme-stocks.\nBut if the space race has done anything, it’s made traveling to the stars cheaper than it’s ever been. The Space Shuttle cost about $450 million a mission, according to NASA’s numbers. The orbiter itself—the spacecraft on the back of the rockets—cost about $1.7 billion. Ultimately, a generation of investing in higher-than-average cost space shuttle technology left America with movies such as Space Camp, U.S. taxpayers with a little more debt, and the lack of astronaut carrying domestic space launch capabilities for a decade.\nThat’s changed now, but it has little to do with Bezos or Virgin Galactic’s (SPCE)Richard Branson.Instead, space lovers should thank Tesla (TSLA) and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. He, like other billionaires, has expressed lofty goals to make humanity a multi-planetary species. Musk however isn’t going into space on a tourist flight. He’s the one that brought launch capabilities back to America by pioneering the use of reusable rockets. It is ferrying NASA astronauts to the International Space Station while launching hundreds of small satellites that offer space-based Wi-Fi to clients around the globe. Partly as a result of that decision, SpaceX is worth an estimated $74 billion in private markets.\nCompare that to Virgin Galactic, which is worth about $7 billion after creating what Canaccord analyst Ken Herbert described as “ Disney for the 1% of the 1%.”\nThat sounds negative, but Herbert rates Galactic shares Buy. He believes clients should put the stock in their portfolios. And his $48 target price values Galactic at roughly $11.5 billion. There might just be a long-term business in space tourism.\nThat illustrates the real “to be sure” of a billionaire space story. If Bezos, or Branson, wants to build an organization to take them to space, so be it. Those are high-paying jobs for bright engineers. Billionaires can do what they want with their money.\nNot even Amazon’s stock seems to care all that much about Bezos’s successful flight. Shares closed up about 0.7% on Tuesday, while stock in Virgin Galactic dropped 1.3%. Tesla stock rose 2.2%, rising for the second consecutive day in the run-up to reporting second-quarter numbers on July 26. 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The S&amp;P 500 dropped 1.6%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than 2%. And for good reason: The Covid-19 variants are a big deal, even if the market’s drop proves to be another blip on the way to higher returns.</p>\n<p>Sometimes, though, investors need to know what they shouldn’t bother to care about, too. Do you know what today’s least significant story is? Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos going into space.</p>\n<p>The successful flight was a little anti-climactic for livestream watchers. There were a lot of “woohoos” and “awesomes” uttered by the crew, even a few “amazings.” Still, 82-year old newly minted astronaut Wally Funk said “It was only about five minutes.”</p>\n<p>You wouldn’t know it from the coverage, of which I’ve been a big part. I’m addicted to stories about billionaires spending their money, a little like People magazine is addicted to the Kardashians.</p>\n<p>The Kardashian analogy is apt. The billionaire space race is entertainment for investors and little more. It’s the modern equivalent of a huge baroque garden or a Victorian menagerie complete with wild animals from India.</p>\n<p>(The post-launch press conference included its own menagerie of a sort. The New Shepard crew showed off a collection of items carried on the flight including a piece of a Wright brothers plane, a medallion from a 19th-century hot air balloon, and a pair of Amelia Earhart’s flight goggles.)</p>\n<p>Rich people spending money has always been a thing, and sometimes it benefits everyone else. People can still visit the gardens at Versailles. They are impressive, even inspiring.</p>\n<p>Everyone, including Bezos, knows the personal rocket company business is ripe for criticism. The Amazon founder admits critics of space tourism are largely right. Still, space supporters point to the potential benefits of pushing technological boundaries. The world, after all, might end up with superfast commercial jets or flying cars a generation or more down the road.</p>\n<p>But the “to be sure” of the space tourism saga isn’t the potential trickle-down technological benefits from billionaire space dalliances. Long-term technological enhancements are the theoretical reason any mania can be positive for society. The dot.com era, for instance, left us with Amazon (ticker: AMZN) and more widespread internet access.</p>\n<p>Not all manias are so giving though. The Financial Crisis was driven by financial technology—collateralized debt obligations and credit default swaps. No one is thanking their lucky stars for those products. There is no guarantee manias result in useful technology. Just look at the most recent financial innovation of zero-commission trades. It’s given us meme-stocks.</p>\n<p>But if the space race has done anything, it’s made traveling to the stars cheaper than it’s ever been. The Space Shuttle cost about $450 million a mission, according to NASA’s numbers. The orbiter itself—the spacecraft on the back of the rockets—cost about $1.7 billion. Ultimately, a generation of investing in higher-than-average cost space shuttle technology left America with movies such as Space Camp, U.S. taxpayers with a little more debt, and the lack of astronaut carrying domestic space launch capabilities for a decade.</p>\n<p>That’s changed now, but it has little to do with Bezos or Virgin Galactic’s (SPCE)Richard Branson.Instead, space lovers should thank Tesla (TSLA) and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. He, like other billionaires, has expressed lofty goals to make humanity a multi-planetary species. Musk however isn’t going into space on a tourist flight. He’s the one that brought launch capabilities back to America by pioneering the use of reusable rockets. It is ferrying NASA astronauts to the International Space Station while launching hundreds of small satellites that offer space-based Wi-Fi to clients around the globe. Partly as a result of that decision, SpaceX is worth an estimated $74 billion in private markets.</p>\n<p>Compare that to Virgin Galactic, which is worth about $7 billion after creating what Canaccord analyst Ken Herbert described as “ Disney for the 1% of the 1%.”</p>\n<p>That sounds negative, but Herbert rates Galactic shares Buy. He believes clients should put the stock in their portfolios. And his $48 target price values Galactic at roughly $11.5 billion. There might just be a long-term business in space tourism.</p>\n<p>That illustrates the real “to be sure” of a billionaire space story. If Bezos, or Branson, wants to build an organization to take them to space, so be it. Those are high-paying jobs for bright engineers. Billionaires can do what they want with their money.</p>\n<p>Not even Amazon’s stock seems to care all that much about Bezos’s successful flight. Shares closed up about 0.7% on Tuesday, while stock in Virgin Galactic dropped 1.3%. Tesla stock rose 2.2%, rising for the second consecutive day in the run-up to reporting second-quarter numbers on July 26. The S&amp;P 500 gained 1.5%, rebounding from Monday’s Covid-19 induced selloff.</p>","source":"lsy1601382232898","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Ignore Jeff Bezos Going to Space. 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Tesla’s Elon Musk Is the Real Winner\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-07-21 11:25 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.barrons.com/articles/amazon-jeff-bezos-space-tesla-elon-musk-spacex-51626783483?mod=hp_DAY_Theme_1_2><strong>Barrons</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Investors usually want to know what the most important story of the day is, the thing responsible for driving stocks with the potential to become an investing theme that drives returns for months or ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.barrons.com/articles/amazon-jeff-bezos-space-tesla-elon-musk-spacex-51626783483?mod=hp_DAY_Theme_1_2\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AMZN":"亚马逊","SPCE":"维珍银河","TSLA":"特斯拉"},"source_url":"https://www.barrons.com/articles/amazon-jeff-bezos-space-tesla-elon-musk-spacex-51626783483?mod=hp_DAY_Theme_1_2","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1128230365","content_text":"Investors usually want to know what the most important story of the day is, the thing responsible for driving stocks with the potential to become an investing theme that drives returns for months or years.\nJeff Bezos going into space is not that thing.\nSometimes, that one big thing is obvious. On Monday, it was Covid-19. The S&P 500 dropped 1.6%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than 2%. And for good reason: The Covid-19 variants are a big deal, even if the market’s drop proves to be another blip on the way to higher returns.\nSometimes, though, investors need to know what they shouldn’t bother to care about, too. Do you know what today’s least significant story is? Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos going into space.\nThe successful flight was a little anti-climactic for livestream watchers. There were a lot of “woohoos” and “awesomes” uttered by the crew, even a few “amazings.” Still, 82-year old newly minted astronaut Wally Funk said “It was only about five minutes.”\nYou wouldn’t know it from the coverage, of which I’ve been a big part. I’m addicted to stories about billionaires spending their money, a little like People magazine is addicted to the Kardashians.\nThe Kardashian analogy is apt. The billionaire space race is entertainment for investors and little more. It’s the modern equivalent of a huge baroque garden or a Victorian menagerie complete with wild animals from India.\n(The post-launch press conference included its own menagerie of a sort. The New Shepard crew showed off a collection of items carried on the flight including a piece of a Wright brothers plane, a medallion from a 19th-century hot air balloon, and a pair of Amelia Earhart’s flight goggles.)\nRich people spending money has always been a thing, and sometimes it benefits everyone else. People can still visit the gardens at Versailles. They are impressive, even inspiring.\nEveryone, including Bezos, knows the personal rocket company business is ripe for criticism. The Amazon founder admits critics of space tourism are largely right. Still, space supporters point to the potential benefits of pushing technological boundaries. The world, after all, might end up with superfast commercial jets or flying cars a generation or more down the road.\nBut the “to be sure” of the space tourism saga isn’t the potential trickle-down technological benefits from billionaire space dalliances. Long-term technological enhancements are the theoretical reason any mania can be positive for society. The dot.com era, for instance, left us with Amazon (ticker: AMZN) and more widespread internet access.\nNot all manias are so giving though. The Financial Crisis was driven by financial technology—collateralized debt obligations and credit default swaps. No one is thanking their lucky stars for those products. There is no guarantee manias result in useful technology. Just look at the most recent financial innovation of zero-commission trades. It’s given us meme-stocks.\nBut if the space race has done anything, it’s made traveling to the stars cheaper than it’s ever been. The Space Shuttle cost about $450 million a mission, according to NASA’s numbers. The orbiter itself—the spacecraft on the back of the rockets—cost about $1.7 billion. Ultimately, a generation of investing in higher-than-average cost space shuttle technology left America with movies such as Space Camp, U.S. taxpayers with a little more debt, and the lack of astronaut carrying domestic space launch capabilities for a decade.\nThat’s changed now, but it has little to do with Bezos or Virgin Galactic’s (SPCE)Richard Branson.Instead, space lovers should thank Tesla (TSLA) and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. He, like other billionaires, has expressed lofty goals to make humanity a multi-planetary species. Musk however isn’t going into space on a tourist flight. He’s the one that brought launch capabilities back to America by pioneering the use of reusable rockets. It is ferrying NASA astronauts to the International Space Station while launching hundreds of small satellites that offer space-based Wi-Fi to clients around the globe. Partly as a result of that decision, SpaceX is worth an estimated $74 billion in private markets.\nCompare that to Virgin Galactic, which is worth about $7 billion after creating what Canaccord analyst Ken Herbert described as “ Disney for the 1% of the 1%.”\nThat sounds negative, but Herbert rates Galactic shares Buy. He believes clients should put the stock in their portfolios. And his $48 target price values Galactic at roughly $11.5 billion. There might just be a long-term business in space tourism.\nThat illustrates the real “to be sure” of a billionaire space story. If Bezos, or Branson, wants to build an organization to take them to space, so be it. Those are high-paying jobs for bright engineers. Billionaires can do what they want with their money.\nNot even Amazon’s stock seems to care all that much about Bezos’s successful flight. Shares closed up about 0.7% on Tuesday, while stock in Virgin Galactic dropped 1.3%. Tesla stock rose 2.2%, rising for the second consecutive day in the run-up to reporting second-quarter numbers on July 26. 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