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It’s coming to Halloween and to have a halloween theme post (as Brexit will be yet again delayed) I’ve chosen a great zombie company to consider.
Netflix now the home of famous Zombie series “Kingdom” and “the Walking Dead” but much like its favourite series, Netflix is a zombie company and I don’t mean because of Kingdom, The Walking Dead, Z Nation, iZombie, Santa Clarita Diet, Dead Set, Containment, & Helix their top ten zombies highlighted for this Halloween.… Read more
If you are looking for an exceptional case study in reviewing a company strategy from its balance sheet and P&L, then look no further than here.
http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2014/9/4/why-amazon-has-no-profits-and-why-it-works
Benedict Evans has a great series of charts to enable you to understand why Amazon works.
Amazon hasn’t declared a meaningful profit, ever.
The company goes against all business tenets about returning profit to shareholders.… Read more
Reuters comments that China’s credit woes are bubbling up into the news again. I have included these reviews for those of you who are part of Chinese businesses (previously here and here).
The World Bank’s top economist, Kaushik Basu, is worried about China’s reliance on credit to fuel growth. He said last week that eventually credit will catch up with it: “We’ve seen that in the U.S.… Read more