Stephen Colbert Suggests Elon Musk For President

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Mark Melin
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As Donald Trump continues to define a “Teflon” presidential campaign to new levels, embracing issues and using language that evokes emotion in voters like red meat evokes emotion in a wolf, perhaps a back-handed suggestion from Stephen Colbert might be worthy of consideration. Elon Musk, the “real Tony Stark, should run for president During a commercial break in his Wednesday taping an interview with tech entrepreneur and social activist Elon Musk, Colbert quipped that the founder of Tesla, SolarCity and SpaceX might do well to “run for president,” according to a CNN report. In the interview, Colbert and Musk were…

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.