Musk wealth pours in as fast as Twitter can use it

Elon Musk can’t spend it fast enough. The Tesla (TSLA.O) chief executive has lined up a $46.5 billion financing bundle to buy Twitter (TWTR.N) if he decides to give it a go. It could entail him raising some $33 billion, on top of the $4 billion worth of Twitter stock he already owns. That might require him to sell most of his Tesla investments that aren’t pledged against loans. But for him and Tesla's other shareholders, it’s less risky than it looks. That's because Tesla's recent financial performance has triggered plenty more essentially free shares for Musk.