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The case for a SpaceX (SPCX) and Tesla (TSLA) combination is clean enough on its face: Elon Musk controls both, and a merger would position him as the primary beneficiary.
What complicates it is that Musk, when pressed publicly at an award ceremony in May by former Forbes editor-in-chief Randall Lane, would not engage the question at all.
The response was noted as uncharacteristic, and it was a demurral, not a denial. That gap is where this story lives. The public setting of Lane's question adds weight to the silence.
Award ceremonies are not adversarial settings, and a flat denial would have been the easier path.
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