If last week the main topics were the 710 million euro fine given by the Bank Competition Council for ROBOR manipulation and the listing of SpaceX on the American stock market, which made Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire ($1,000 billion), now the topic of the new week is again the political crisis and the nomination by President Nicusor Dan of a new prime minister, Adrian Vestea, a lesser-known liberal leader («Who else is this one?» being the main question on Sunday morning after the TV screens blared with Breaking News). The NASDAQ listing of SpaceX has a special significance, because it continues to show that America is the undisputed leader of the world, where big, often utopian ideas find funding. If the Chinese won the battle in the manufacturing area, America maintains its supremacy on the financial market and the stock market. Elon Musk, the most followed character in the world in the last decade, even above Donald Trump, wants to produce and place data centers in space, connected by the Starlink satellite network. You might also be interested: All analysts, all bankers, all investors, all the American media, all the American establishment got behind Elon Musk for the success of the SpaceX listing and to become the world’s first trillionaire. Never will Elon Musk, or anyone else who reaches these numbers, spend this money. Apart from private planes and the billion dollars he gives every year in American politics, Elon Musk doesn’t need any other money, he being an extremely austere man, ironically speaking I think he would feel extremely comfortable in the famous 30-35 square meter studios in Militari Rezidence or the south of the Capital. Elon Musk is promoted as a model, for others to be like him, to do what he did with Tesla, with Starlink, with SpaceX. For Americans, it doesn’t matter that after the listing, the share price usually falls, because there they sell an idea that may or may not gain ground. In our country, keeping the proportions, Iulian Stanciu, the one who was at the helm of eMag for 17 years, declared that the money he now collected from the sale of shares – over 500 million euros, according to the ZF estimate – he wants to use to invest in other ideas, in other businesses, so that 10 eMags appear. If everyone focused their attention on the listing of SpaceX (according to the first data, only through Tradeville Romanians invested 2.5 million dollars in SpaceX), the company’s valuation after the first day of trading reaching 2,300 billion dollars, in Bucharest, on Sunday morning, the president Nicusor Dan withdrew Eugen Tomac and threw Adrian Veștea, one of the first vice-presidents of the PNL, into battle against Ilie Bolojan, the leader of the PNL, in the attempt to form a new government that would remove Bolojan both from the head of the government and from the party. The problem is that, while President Nicusor Dan is doing political experiments, the economy continues to decline. Even Matei Păun, his main adviser, declared in a podcast to Cătălin Striblea that there is no country in Europe that is currently in greater economic danger than Romania and the downgrade of the rating agencies is almost inevitable, which will mean recessions, huge interest rates, financial collapse. The European Commission reduced Romania’s economic growth forecast for this year from 1% to 0.1%, a variant considered optimistic. Inflation continues to remain at an extremely high level – 11%, and purchasing power is negative for the tenth month in a row, the 11% increase in prices being much higher than the increase in wages which, in the period April 2025-April 2026, recorded the lowest increase of the last 12 months, only 3.5%. Due to the political crisis, the year 2026 is lost from an economic and business point of view, and social tensions are increasing. Nobody really wants to be in government anymore, because balancing the situation involves the adoption of other negative fiscal, economic and legislative measures. Because we are doing too well, because the money has not yet run out, far too many people, especially in the political area, believe that Romania has an inexhaustible source of money with which it can cover all the disaster that the politicians do. The only field that works is that of betting, especially since the World Football Championship has also started, so, ironically, the political class of all kinds are now betting on whether Adrian Veştea, pulled out by the president Nicusor Dan from his backpack, will pass or not the new government. If the economic data is negative, at least let’s be on the positive side when it comes to betting.
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