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Toby Howell

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Morning Brew Daily
Wall St. Shook By ‘Sell America’ & BlackRock’s CEO Says Capitalism is Not Working

Most of them are selling access to a USA house, which is the base for the U.S.

Morning Brew Daily
Wall St. Shook By ‘Sell America’ & BlackRock’s CEO Says Capitalism is Not Working

delegation here in Davos.

Morning Brew Daily
Wall St. Shook By ‘Sell America’ & BlackRock’s CEO Says Capitalism is Not Working

And USA has had to come out and issue a warning about selling fake VIP passes that are

Morning Brew Daily
Wall St. Shook By ‘Sell America’ & BlackRock’s CEO Says Capitalism is Not Working

pledging access to trump and scott percent totally fake but apparently some billionaires were falling for this scam so that is why you and me neil have no badges or access to anything here just to avoid getting scammed of course yeah there is a little bit of schadenfreude in uh in billionaires getting scammed just like the rest of us moving on netflix may be the most valuable media company the world has ever seen but it wants you to know it's not the only television game in town

Morning Brew Daily
Wall St. Shook By ‘Sell America’ & BlackRock’s CEO Says Capitalism is Not Working

It's so funny.

Morning Brew Daily
Wall St. Shook By ‘Sell America’ & BlackRock’s CEO Says Capitalism is Not Working

They're going, oh, please don't mean Netflix.

Morning Brew Daily
Wall St. Shook By ‘Sell America’ & BlackRock’s CEO Says Capitalism is Not Working

Like, we're so small.

Morning Brew Daily
Wall St. Shook By ‘Sell America’ & BlackRock’s CEO Says Capitalism is Not Working

Everyone is so competitive against us.

Morning Brew Daily
Wall St. Shook By ‘Sell America’ & BlackRock’s CEO Says Capitalism is Not Working

And yet you do look at the quarter they just reported.

Morning Brew Daily
Wall St. Shook By ‘Sell America’ & BlackRock’s CEO Says Capitalism is Not Working

They did really freaking well.

Morning Brew Daily
Wall St. Shook By ‘Sell America’ & BlackRock’s CEO Says Capitalism is Not Working

But it does look like everyone kind of is ignoring their actual financial performance.

Morning Brew Daily
Wall St. Shook By ‘Sell America’ & BlackRock’s CEO Says Capitalism is Not Working

because all eyes are looking at this Warner Brothers Discovery deal.

Morning Brew Daily
Wall St. Shook By ‘Sell America’ & BlackRock’s CEO Says Capitalism is Not Working

Shares were down 5% after hours.

Morning Brew Daily
Wall St. Shook By ‘Sell America’ & BlackRock’s CEO Says Capitalism is Not Working

This has been a rough go of it for Netflix ever since announcing this acquisition of Warner Brothers Discovery.

Morning Brew Daily
Wall St. Shook By ‘Sell America’ & BlackRock’s CEO Says Capitalism is Not Working

Their stock has fallen over 15%, which is very decidedly un-Netflix-y when you look at actually what's been happening at the company and the financial performance itself.

Morning Brew Daily
Wall St. Shook By ‘Sell America’ & BlackRock’s CEO Says Capitalism is Not Working

So it does look like this was just an afterthought to what is actually going to happen with this big merger that is just hanging over them like a black cloud.

Morning Brew Daily
Wall St. Shook By ‘Sell America’ & BlackRock’s CEO Says Capitalism is Not Working

Still, I do want to dig into why investors are not so hot on this acquisition, even though Warner Brothers is a very valuable catalog of IP.

Morning Brew Daily
Wall St. Shook By ‘Sell America’ & BlackRock’s CEO Says Capitalism is Not Working

A lot of them thinks that it's going to

Morning Brew Daily
Wall St. Shook By ‘Sell America’ & BlackRock’s CEO Says Capitalism is Not Working

not mesh well with Netflix's culture.

Morning Brew Daily
Wall St. Shook By ‘Sell America’ & BlackRock’s CEO Says Capitalism is Not Working

Warner Brothers might bring a bloated, slower way of life to a very fast-moving company.