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Making cars is hard, just ask Ford...

>As of this story's publication, Thursday, September 4, 2025, Ford has issued 109 recalls that have covered 7,871,344 vehicles. Of course, quite a few of those cars are repeat offenders, but you get the point. It's staggering.

>Of those 109 recalls, 26 of them are re-recalls. That means they're recalls on recalls Ford has already carried out,

What is the PE for Ford v/s the PE for Tesla.

By definition the same people propping up the stock price even with a forward PE of ~200. Lots of wishful thinking.

This always reminds me of a fragment of lost tragic ancient Greek verse, quoted only in Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric:

Often, when the gods bring great prosperity as a gift for men

They do so not out of goodwill towards them

But so that their ruin may be more conspicuous.