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If you have earnings too frequently, it encourages companies to become hyper focused on earnings and make less long term investments. But if there is too much gap in between earnings, there is potential for grifting. What to do?


Encourage more smaller privately owned companies rather than massive megacorps.


They all grow by acquisitions, if you want smaller privately owned companies then you also need a strong anti-trust body.


We could keep making companies they want to acquire until they run out of money to acquire them with.


Yes. That is what I want.


So either big companies would lobby against their interest, or SEC would do something independently. Honestly I cannot decide which one is more absurd.


I highly doubt semi-annual reporting will shift the focus from the short term profits at all costs thinking that prevails today.


Report very frequently, then use a moving-window average for any sharp questions of tax and legislation?


Quarterly reporting didn't seem to hurt Amazon.




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