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Benzinga
Benzinga
Business
Phil Hall

Did Elon Musk Take His Kids To Walmart To Confirm The Pandemic-Era Toilet Paper Shortage?

When he’s not putting electric vehicles on the road or tweeting the cryptocurrency markets into roller coasters or sending rockets into space — with one eventually crashing on the moon — Elon Musk is giving his children a hands-on education in the Business 101 concepts of supply and demand.

What Happened: During the fourth-quarter earnings call for Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), Musk offered a relatively rare glimpse into his private life by acknowledging that he took his children on a field trip to a couple of major retailers to confirm reports of a shortage in toilet paper inventories during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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