/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>14838730
post some numbers and graphs for us babygirl

When the third pokemon movie came out in 2000, the St. Louis Rams were Super Bowl champions.
They had just won Super Bowl XXXIV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bflL0XATHAw

The Nasdaq Index was at 4000. Within 8 months it would be under 2000.

>>14168246
It was a pretty big deal in the news last week, all the big companies are under investigation of either the FTC or the judicial department, as well as the house of representatives.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/03/technology/facebook-ftc-antitrust.html

Basically any large mergers or buyouts are less likely, because all three branches of government are looking over the companies for being what they are: huge money monoliths that will continue to buy out everyone.
If Amazon (or google, apple facebook, etc.) start large buyout proceedings with anyone during these investigations it would be extremely surprising. Even if these companies don't blob up any smaller companies during the investigations,they might already get broken up.

I could go into more detail about possibilities of these investigations, if needed, but you can also read about the recent things that companies like google and apple have been charged with. basically behaviors that use the highly-integrated natures of their businesses to prioritize their products.

Even if amazon has done nothing wrong, they still have to spin things down and open their books to regulators. and 'has done nothing wrong' is completely up to political interpretation right now :^)

A fun historical case to read about would be:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._AT%26T
Which probably didn't occur during the lifetime of many of our posters here.