Tag: AMZN.NASDAQ
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![Pepsi, Nestle and Amazon: asymmetric risk and monopoly control]()
Pepsi, Nestle and Amazon: asymmetric risk and monopoly control
Two hundred years after the Sherman Anti-trust Act brought about the fall of Rockefeller’s monopoly control, Bernie Saunders and Elizabeth Warren pushed for America to once again decide whether Pepsi (PEP.NASDAQ), Nestle (NESN.SWX) and Amazon (AMZN.NASDAQ) are agreeable corporate spouses or abusive partners slipping in after a trial separation, but in the age of post-modern…
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![Icahn’s noxious no-brainers and America’s share buyback binge: Is value extraction a sham?]()
Icahn’s noxious no-brainers and America’s share buyback binge: Is value extraction a sham?
Icahn’s traveling roadshow is only marginally better than the criminal activities of Bain Capital. These vicious business vultures swoop in, gain control of the shares, get the company to load up on back-breaking debt to commence a share buyback scheme which they sell into and walk away from long before the company’s books explode all…
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![Bezos (AMZN.Q), Branson (SPCE.Q), Musk (TSLA.Q) – how 3 billionaires with big egos are wasting space]()
Bezos (AMZN.Q), Branson (SPCE.Q), Musk (TSLA.Q) – how 3 billionaires with big egos are wasting space
Last spring, in Washington DC, Bezos laid out his long-term vision for Blue Origin, which involves having up to a trillion humans living in “manufactured worlds”.
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![Amazon.com (AMZN.NASDAQ): Corporate welfare over welfare capitalism]()
Amazon.com (AMZN.NASDAQ): Corporate welfare over welfare capitalism
Jeff Bezos started Amazon in his garage with a couple hundred grand from his parents. This ex-hedge fund manager turned internet titan and evil king-making gnome has often been lauded for his customer-focused business strategies, aggressive business development and industry prowess, but how challenging is the journey when you’re a 1500lb gorilla on someone else’s…
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![Bitcoin trader makes dumb greedy bet – loses $16 million – kills himself, triggering painful shotgun-in-mouth memory of even dumber, greedier Amazon (AMZN.Q) bet]()
Bitcoin trader makes dumb greedy bet – loses $16 million – kills himself, triggering painful shotgun-in-mouth memory of even dumber, greedier Amazon (AMZN.Q) bet
A few weeks ago, a Chinese Bitcoin trader, Hui Yi, embezzled 2,000 Bitcoins, used them as collateral to take a highly leveraged (100x) short position on the price of Bitcoin. The co-founder and CEO of a crypto market analysis platform, Hui got the timing and direction of his bet horrendously wrong. WeChat messages indicate that…
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![Canopy Growth (CGC.NYSE) is losing $41 per second – does that matter?]()
Canopy Growth (CGC.NYSE) is losing $41 per second – does that matter?
Canopy Growth’s (CGC.NYSE) Q4, 2019 results reported a net loss of $323 million Canadian dollars. That’s $41 loss per second. $2,500 per minute. $150,000 per hour. $3.6 million dollars a day. By any reasonable measure, that’s heavy bleeding. Yes – cannabis is a frontier market. It’s so new, it’s still bathed in amniotic fluid. Eighteen…
