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We are writing to you today about an upcoming change to your Prime Video experience. Starting January 29, Prime Video movies and TV shows will include limited advertisements. This will allow us to continue investing in compelling content and keep increasing that investment over a long period of time. We aim to have meaningfully fewer ads than linear TV and other streaming TV providers. No action is required from you, and there is no change to the current price of your Prime membership. We will also offer a new ad-free option for an additional $2.99 per month that you can sign up for here.
Stock market has been the only place to invest that beats inflation for more than a decade (since 2007,) which causes every investment fund to push their money into stocks for growth. Executives see this, and realize they can get rich quick by pumping their stock price over everything, so now every large corporation is structured to pump up and maintain their stock price via near zero interest leverage.
Well, now inflation is running near 30% annually, and the Fed has to jack rates up to control that.
The market took off this week over news that the Fed might lower rates in 2024.
NOT
GOING
TO
HAPPEN
The days of low interest rate financing are now over, and nearly every major corporation is a zombie company.