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See Also: Netflix's stock hitting a spike when Paramount muscled them out of their purchase...

And Gavin Newsom looks like an even bigger idiot for going over his AG's head and not calling David's bluff...

Does that mean we can expect a Kenneth Lay outcome for the Ellisons?

This is a real problem with having the megarich be in charge of companies- they're the only people in the whole organization who are wholly insulated from the realities of the business. How long until WarnerMount starts spinning off divisions? I give it a year.

Well at least Oracle's still doing oHMIGOD–

My bet is that "Skydance" will be in chapter 11 in the next 3 to 6 years as it crumbles under all that debt. The Ellison's will walk away scot-free.

Amazing how a relatively pathetic amount of debt can dominate or ruin the lives of us peasants, and yet debts that rival the GDP of some countries are barely an inconvenience to corporations.

I'm really starting to think business leaders, at least in North America, don't actually know how to run businesses anymore. Not that they've needed to, of course, between decades of interest-free debt and an acquiescent government...

Well, having seek out 8 billion in more financing out of the gate because they didn't have all their money for the merger locked in already, isn't a good sign to even the most lunkheaded of investors.

One company owning the majority of entertainment reminds me of the sky-high valuations AI "labs" are courting. If you START at $2 Trillion, how much further do you think the company's going to grow, exactly? Esp. when the average investor considers doubling their money a "weak return"?