<story><title>Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 Evenly Between Two Cities</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-plans-to-split-hq2-evenly-between-two-cities-1541446552</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>standerman</author><text>&amp;quot;There is a recession coming in the near future, which could result in Amazon looking for cheaper developers globally.&amp;quot;  
It&amp;#x27;s dangerous to post speculative things with such certainty. The future is never guaranteed.</text></item><item><author>dmode</author><text>Amazon is playing cities like chump. I had a sense in the beginning of this process that Amazon doesn’t really want to build a HQ2. They just want to open another office. Most large tech companies have large campuses across multiple cities. This exercise is no different than that. But Bezos branded it HQ2 to maximize handout. I also predict that they will end up hiring far less than the 25k projected. There is a recession coming in the near future, which could result in Amazon looking for cheaper developers globally.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>imh</author><text>The more worried people are that there&amp;#x27;s a bubble, the less extreme the irrational exuberance. I love all the &amp;quot;shit, the bubble&amp;#x27;s about to pop&amp;quot; talk. If people &lt;i&gt;weren&amp;#x27;t&lt;/i&gt; worried, it&amp;#x27;s just make the correction that much worse when it comes. And someday we&amp;#x27;ll have one, that&amp;#x27;s a given. It&amp;#x27;s just a question of when and how bad.</text></comment>
<story><title>Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 Evenly Between Two Cities</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-plans-to-split-hq2-evenly-between-two-cities-1541446552</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>standerman</author><text>&amp;quot;There is a recession coming in the near future, which could result in Amazon looking for cheaper developers globally.&amp;quot;  
It&amp;#x27;s dangerous to post speculative things with such certainty. The future is never guaranteed.</text></item><item><author>dmode</author><text>Amazon is playing cities like chump. I had a sense in the beginning of this process that Amazon doesn’t really want to build a HQ2. They just want to open another office. Most large tech companies have large campuses across multiple cities. This exercise is no different than that. But Bezos branded it HQ2 to maximize handout. I also predict that they will end up hiring far less than the 25k projected. There is a recession coming in the near future, which could result in Amazon looking for cheaper developers globally.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rburhum</author><text>I am just going to leave you with this image here that shows the SP&amp;amp;500 since 1928: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;imgur.com&amp;#x2F;a&amp;#x2F;JCMbIvU&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;imgur.com&amp;#x2F;a&amp;#x2F;JCMbIvU&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;We have had 10 years of growth since the last recession (every gray line is a recession).&lt;p&gt;If you take into account the market corrections that we have seen this year as a sign, most people in finance will agree that there will be a correction in the next three years. It is far from speculation.&lt;p&gt;The charts was generated from here: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.macrotrends.net&amp;#x2F;2324&amp;#x2F;sp-500-historical-chart-data&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.macrotrends.net&amp;#x2F;2324&amp;#x2F;sp-500-historical-chart-dat...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Edit: FYI I did not imply that market corrections == recession. The reason I put the image is to show that there hasn&amp;#x27;t been a recession in 10 years and that we are due for one. We have had a few market corrections this year, but no recession &lt;i&gt;yet&lt;/i&gt;.</text></comment>