Frankly I&#x27;m surprised this hasn&#x27;t happened sooner. So much money is sloshing through Amazon these days, keeping it balanced to the point where you don&#x27;t let it accumulate (generating profit) or flow to fast (generating loss) has got to be scary complex. At every large company I&#x27;ve worked at there are things on the balance sheet that are &quot;tunable&quot; by management which helps with this. It was a running joke inside Network Appliance that we always beat expectations by $.01 cent per share. Of course until you didn&#x27;t and that usually meant that what ever mechanisms you used for tuning your cash flow didn&#x27;t have enough dynamic range to cover the change that quarter.<p>Amazon then, being a services, merchandising, payment processor conglomeration then has to be crazy hard to manage cashflow in any meaningful way.