In the category of just when you seen it all! No, not Britain voting to leave the European Union. But that news headline seemed to have taken this one off the main pages of the Wall Street Journal.

I am referring to one of the most fascinating people of our day. No, not Donald Trump. I am talking about Elon Musk. He may be a bigger Dealmaker than Trump if he can pull off his latest idea. Mr. Musk has proposed that his Tesla controlled company buy, at a big premium, his solar panel controlled company.

The “facts” if you can call these worthwhile facts are as follows:

-Tesla, the electric car company, has never made a profit even though it receives huge direct and indirect government subsidies  and  currently “sells” their cars for close to $100,000 each. Tesla is not expected to be profitable until 2020 at the earliest but has a market value of $32 billion, because some people love Mr. Musk. Tesla is thus worth more than General Motors and a lot of other longtime firms who make profits.

-The Solar panel company, Solar City, has never made a profit even though it receives huge direct and indirect government subsidies as well. The company lost $283 million during the first three months of this year alone. The synergy of merging these two firms and any resulting increased valuation have not been fully explained to date. Electric cars and solar panels, you never know.

-Both firms have sold tons of stock or debt to finance their losses and activities. Tesla just sold $1.7 billion of its stock and is spending $5 billion to build a new battery factory. Solar City, in 2014, sold $214 million in bonds, the largest buyer of which was Mr. Musk’s controlled space exploration firm, Space X. Mr. Musk has lent his own money to these firms, over the years ,and right now has a roughly half a billion dollar personal line of credit secured by his various companies’ stock. Always a complex legal and financing arrangement.

-The Chairman of Solar City is a first cousin to Elon Musk. Neither of them will personally “vote” for the merger but are both very supportive of it getting done as are some other cousins and relatives.

Now if these were private firms, I say fine, hopefully the lenders understand the risks. But these are all public firms that Mr. Musk “controls” with various ownership percents which overall are around 25%. Over the years he has reduced his ownership through public offerings of stock. So there is a lot of other people’s money involved in this rotating shell game. Some large investors, like Fidelity, have endorsed this merger. Fidelity owns a chuck of both firms and Space X as well.

Who will make money on this merger? Elon Musk, his cousin and his family, it is reported, could have a windfall of just under a billion dollars.

All I know is that in big deals, whether its Donald Trump or Elon Musk, the Dealmakers usually come out alright. If you own the stock or debt or one of these entities you may have to wait another decade or two to know if you made money. By then, one financial writer, noted Elon Musk could be living on Mars courtesy of one of his firm’s space rockets!