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Financial Fridays: The WTF on This Stock Market ‘Crash’
- PaulHoule 11y agoI think also there has been an era of financial engineering that is coming to a close. In good times, CXOs can manipulate things so they can show the steadily improving earnings that wall street likes. In bad times, reality pokes through. For instance, Disney is in complete denial about the future of ESPN. For instance, the estimate that ESPN would cost $35 in an al-la-carte scenario is a matter of dividing the revenue that the need to pay the inflated costs they pay sports team and assuming they will still be able to earn that. It is full of bull, however, and that is why they are heading down.