Netflix, Warner Bros, and Monopolies: Caleb Silver Breaks Down the Power Moves

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3:12All right, well, let's bring our guest on. We have our guest, Caleb Silver, friend of the show. Caleb, what's good, my guy? My brother, how are you? Nice merch. Y 'all twin in. Caleb, what's up, man? Good merch. Good merch. Tell them what happens every time you wear that sweatshirt, man. I get so many phone numbers dropped on me. I got people DMing me left and right. I can't walk around with my family. It's embarrassing. Not only do I look fly fresh to death, it's warm. You guys got a good sale going on right now. And it is probably the most important metric in the stock market right now. Assets over liabilities.

3:53right gross profit margins revenue per employee that's what's driving a lot of these stocks right now so your logo is perfect and this is the perfect hoodie for the cold winters of new york city yes i appreciate you one of my favorite people on the planet absolutely and i tell my friends not to kidnap you in the land anymore yeah yeah that's okay that was that ended up being one of the greatest nights of my life shout out to my guys in indy right now i know they're i know they're tapped in to market mondays as usual good to be with you as always my friends yes all right so caleb silver editor-in-chief of investopedia and uh just all around very intelligent person when it comes to stocks and it's been a great resource and bring to the the program and everything that we've done from invest fest to market mondays to earn your leisure so always appreciate when you come on and share share your wisdom you've done uh tech you've done technical analysis when it comes to cryptocurrency, done all types of different stuff.

4:49So I want to start the conversation with Netflix. So, you know, we talked about this on Instagram a few days ago. At the time, it appeared that they acquired Warner Brothers and all streaming assets in a$72 billion deal. And that was something that really just broke the internet. But then a few days later, the Trump administration... What if mind control is real? If you could control the behavior of anybody around you, what kind of life would you have? Can you hypnotically persuade someone to buy a car? When you look at your car, you're going to become overwhelmed with such good feelings. Can you hypnotize someone into sleeping with you?

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10:33So monopoly goes all the way back to the antitrust acts of the railroad acts, the Sherman Act of the railroad acts in the 19th century, late 19th century, when the railroads were developing in this country, they were building out, trying to get cross country. And there were several big ones that were colluding together. And that defines a monopoly when you have two or more parties colluding together to try to corner our market and control market share that is deemed monopolistic. When they make it anti-competitive for competitors to enter the market and anti-competitive for suppliers potentially to supply to those competitors, that's monopoly.

11:08And usually the Federal Trade Commission rules against monopolies and have tried to strike them down except when the price is right. And we saw today or it was today or yesterday a beautiful hostile takeover bid from a competitor now entering the markets. So you have a monopoly, potentially, you have an antitrust ruling, and now you have a hostile takeover bid, all wrapped into one story. This is Investopedia wrapped up in a beautiful box with a bow. I love it. But doesn't this make it a little bit more interesting that the administration is involved in this? Obviously, they said that they don't want it to be a monopoly.

11:43And then today the president said that he doesn't have friends on either side. But a little dig into the research, he doesn't have friends, but he definitely has family on one side. That's an interesting. of shit. He definitely has invested interest. I mean, this is pretty unique, no? Yeah, it's pretty unique, but it's not unusual to this administration. The last time I was on here with you guys a few months back after this administration took off, as I said, the most important metric right now for companies is proximity to power. Who is sitting at the White House? Who's having dinner? Who's being invited to the CEO, private dinners and Mar-a-Lago for golf and drinks by the pool?

12:19And if you're in that camp, you've done very well as a stock. And this administration has proved that it is going to do what's in its best interest and the best interest of the people that are close to it and also put their hand into private businesses, whether that's investments in companies like Intel or whether that's trying to strong arm deals between NVIDIA and its suppliers or AMD and its suppliers or guarantee that companies build factories and infrastructure here in the United States. They're going to do it. So assume that they will have their hands in this as well. Ernest, what's up? You ever walk into a small business and everything just works?

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