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Amazon Can Be Hard to Understand but Easy to Like

Tom Hughes | Tue, 11/04/2008 - 9:00pm | AMZN, cloud computing, conglomerates, CRM, Facebook, GE, GOOG | Add a comment

There was a fashion, once, for industrial conglomerates. Companies would buy each other up and the market would reward the result with a higher PE than the components. This got going in the 1960s and worked into the '70s, but went into reverse with the fashion for down-sizing, right-si ... Read more

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conglomerates

Stock Investing > The Longish View

Amazon Can Be Hard to Understand but Easy to Like

Tom Hughes | Tue, 11/04/2008 - 9:00pm | AMZN, cloud computing, conglomerates, CRM, Facebook, GE, GOOG | Add a comment

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