Opinion | From Elon Musk to Nicolas Cage and Pangzai, nominating the pandemic’s biggest winners and villains
The coronavirus is bringing out the best and the worst in people. Politicians aside, here are just some of those who have seen their stock rise or sent it plummeting
With the easing of lockdowns, a return to normality cannot come fast enough. But we are not there yet and the pandemic is still on my mind, in particular who is having a good one and who is having a bad one. I don’t mean this in a glib way, but rather I was thinking about who, through their actions or lack thereof, has seen their stock rise and who has seen it plummet.
There are painfully obvious examples in politics, with Donald Trump, Boris Johnson and Jair Bolsonaro at one end of the spectrum and Angela Merkel, Jacinda Ardern and Moon Jae-in at the other. But politics is a quagmire, and not an amusing one.
I’m thinking more of those who have experienced era-defining highs and lows, with meltdowns and supreme acts of grace.
Let’s start with people having a bad pandemic, and my No 1 can only be Elon Musk. The billionaire Tesla and Space X chief is having a doozy of a 2020, even by his own bizarre standards.
