Ah, sorry. I read your comment backwards.

Of course confiscating UAE assets would be a gigantic escalation and will never happen. 😔

Do they have anything other than oil?

Please read the article, it’s not that long.

He is using Tesla as a piggy bank. Grifting money, employees and graphics cards.

Unfortunately we don’t share a common language anymore. The people fighting for “law and order” don’t actually mean, that everyone has to follow the same law. For them it’s a tool to police minorities and political opponents. In other words fascism.

It’s one indicator of economic health out of many. Unlike many other assets, real estate is immovable. So it has a strong association with the location.

Yes, work from home is a good argument, why falling office prices might not be a big deal. The question then becomes, is this trend more pronounced in Germany than in other countries? Maybe, but probably not.

Also unfortunately the article mentions Signa (commercial) and vonovia (residential) real estate. So there’s no clear separation. But overall the trend is true for both.

Property prices are used here as a proxy for the health of the economy.

The author may or may not be concerned about the affordability of homes. But that’s a different issue. This is just about absolute prices. And low prices mean low interest in Germany. As the article says, people are interested more in London or Paris.

This leads to fewer investments in the economy and Germany is at risk of falling behind.

The problem is, that the studies on glyphosat are way too small. As far as I know it is not particularly cancerous. That is other weed killers are worse. But Monsanto who did these studies and Bayer who bought Monsanto and miscalculated the risks; they did a poor job with these studies, which caused this massive confusion and are therefore largely to blame themselves for the disaster.

Here is a good video on the topic. It’s in German, though: https://youtu.be/2K0TAphTfaI?si=rXimwbUfEY51fSdq

It’s probably safe to assume the studies saying it doesn’t were bought and paid for by Bayer

This btw. is how it works. You have a product you want to bring to the market, so you have to prove it’s safe. It’s the regulator’s job to decided if the provided evidence is enough.

I just looked it up. He has a 6 months lock-in period. CNN article

Btw. this was not an IPO, but a reverse-merger using a SPAC. That way the company going public doesn’t have to adhere to the SEC’s strict IPO regulations.