After the bell Amazon beat on earnings, but guided lower next quarter. Their profit margin is thin, and getting even thinner.
Stocks remain thinly traded, without substantial underpinnings.
“Blood and power intoxicate; they help to develop callousness and debauchery. The mind then becomes capable of the most abnormal cruelty, which it regards pleasure; the man and the citizen are swallowed up in the tyrant; and the return to human dignity, repentance, moral resurrection, becomes almost impossible."
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The House of the Dead