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How Google (Alphabet) Makes Money

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The company offers a variety of software and Internet-related services and solutions, including web browsing and searching, cloud computing, streaming entertainment, mobile operating systems and applications, and more. Alphabet leverages its various platforms and services to generate a substantial portion of its revenue from advertising.

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Does Disney’s Plan For ‘Mulan’ Signal Hollywood’s Permanent Digital Shift?

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Disney also suspended its quarterly dividend and slashed $700 million in expansion spending at domestic theme parks as it sought to offset some of the massive net quarterly loss, which came in $4.72 Disney announced that its streaming empire – Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+ — has grown to about 100 million subscribers worldwide. “The

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Transcript: Michael Fisch

Barry Ritholtz

But there wasn’t an active m and a business, there wasn’t a leveraged finance business. But there came to be, in certain situations, buyers that were bootstrap, buyers that were, we would call ’em today, they then leveraged buyout financiers. And, and we wanted to have relatively modest leverage.

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Transcript: Steven Klinsky

Barry Ritholtz

And what was interesting was the first leveraged buyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school. KLINSKY: In 1979, it was the first leveraged buyout of a public company. We had sold the family business, maybe buy another family business one day through a leveraged buyout. RITHOLTZ: That’s pretty safe.

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Gamestop and Robinhood – A technical discussion

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Derivative contracts make it possible to multiply the impact of the short making it possible to profit from a short position larger than the actual shares borrowed. During the pandemic and lockdowns, with people stuck at home and schools closed, wasn’t a gaming company due to make profit? There are also costs related to shorting.

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Using Detailed Meeting Checklists to Drive Referral Growth

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Michael: So, it sounds like part of the challenge was, you live in a large company environment where, as is common for a lot of them, they organized study groups of top advisors, of top producers, of those that are doing well and growing well, and driving the business profitably. In fact, we probably would have been much more profitable.

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

Barry Ritholtz

BITTERLY MICHELL: Not in leveraged, no, not at all, give more …. The next question that you alluded to, which is really interesting about revenue and profits, how solid in inflation hedge are equities? It’s late in the summer in 2022, markets sold off 22, 24 percent, recovered about half of those losses …. RITHOLTZ: Right.