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Paulo Santos
Mass delusion on
AMZN
, people keep repeating the "
AMZN
doesn't need to make money because it sells media" mantra
7/6/12
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Paulo Santos
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As if
GOOG
and
AAPL
were not selling media, as well ... and
MSFT
was not about to do it, too ...
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Paulo Santos
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Another funny thing is how people talk about "increased earnings". Earnings in
AMZN
have been doing nothing but going down.
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Paulo Santos
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Delusion is fascinating. Making people believe reality is something other than what's right in front of their eyes.
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ChrisGriffith
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Paulo, Is there a good way to play this and hope for a
NFLX
or
GMCR
-style meltdown? Long-dated put options are on the expensive side
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ChrisGriffith
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...and a short probably isn't a great play because the masses can keep propping this one up for a while until someone notices that the
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ChrisGriffith
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...emperor isn't wearing any clothes
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Paulo Santos
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Chris, I don't think there's any safe way to play it except having a small allocation to it on the short side.
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