Publications

Talking Points: Quotations from people in the news
- January 1, 2026: Vol. 13, Number 1

To read this full article you need to be subscribed to Real Assets Adviser

Talking Points: Quotations from people in the news

by

Ron Baron, billionaire chairman and CEO of Baron Capital, on his backing of Elon Musk's companies: “We’ve made about $8 billion from Tesla from $400 million when we started, and with SpaceX we’ve made about $4 billion since we started that in 2017. That’s $12 or $13 billion we made so far. I think give me five times that over the next 10 years.”

 

Julia Hardy, co-founder of zeroShadow, a crypto investigations firm, on the alleged $28 billion in dirty money in cryptocurrency: “Law enforcement can’t cope with the overwhelming amount of illicit activity in the space. It can’t go on like this.”

 

Craig Spencer, chairman and CEO, Arden Group: “Neighborhood warehouses represent more than one-third of U.S. industrial stock yet remain largely overlooked by institutional investors.”

 

Kevin Smith, CEO of Arevon, on U.S. energy demands: “Simply p

For reprint and licensing requests for this article, Click Here.

Forgot your username or password?