Comments on Chris Gottschalk's articles RSS Syndication from SeekingAlpha.com http://seekingalpha.com/author/chris-gottschalk/articles http://seekingalpha.com/article/98333-bargain-basement-stocks?source=feed#comment-275224 275224 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:32:03 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/98333-bargain-basement-stocks?source=feed#comment-274389 274389 Sun, 05 Oct 2008 23:52:32 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/98333-bargain-basement-stocks?source=feed#comment-274228 274228 Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:24:22 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/98333-bargain-basement-stocks?source=feed#comment-274112 274112 Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:03:20 -0400 ]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/98333-bargain-basement-stocks?source=feed#comment-273778 273778 Sun, 05 Oct 2008 08:04:06 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/92851-investing-in-the-housing-crisis-aftermath-stock-picks-and-pans?source=feed#comment-263040 263040 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:19:50 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/92851-investing-in-the-housing-crisis-aftermath-stock-picks-and-pans?source=feed#comment-249931 249931 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:56:25 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/92851-investing-in-the-housing-crisis-aftermath-stock-picks-and-pans?source=feed#comment-247322 247322 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:30:15 -0400 You comments are right on target. They also gave me a good laugh this morning.


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Sir Ramjam Delilah Funkyboogaloo-Smythe
Chief Academic Officer(Provost)
Chulafinee City Community College ]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/92851-investing-in-the-housing-crisis-aftermath-stock-picks-and-pans?source=feed#comment-247320 247320 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:28:46 -0400 You comments are right on target. They also gave me a good laugh this morning.


Signed,
Sir Ramjam Delilah Funkyboogaloo-Smythe
Chief Academic Officer(Provost)
Chulafinee City Community College ]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/92851-investing-in-the-housing-crisis-aftermath-stock-picks-and-pans?source=feed#comment-246915 246915 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:34:20 -0400
You prompted me to look more closely and now I do have an author name and company to associate with this drivel. I missed it the first time through. Thanks!]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/92851-investing-in-the-housing-crisis-aftermath-stock-picks-and-pans?source=feed#comment-246630 246630 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:34:24 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/93830-web-browser-wars-google-looking-beyond-market-share?source=feed#comment-246629 246629 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:32:49 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/93830-web-browser-wars-google-looking-beyond-market-share?source=feed#comment-245896 245896 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:35:24 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/93830-web-browser-wars-google-looking-beyond-market-share?source=feed#comment-245501 245501 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:24:41 -0400
1) Chrome and Firefox are indeed open source; however, Chrome is built upon WebKit which is an open source tool strongly supported by Apple (it's the basis of Safari on the iPhone and under MacOS X). Assuming that all of Chrome is maintained in the open source arena, Apple will benefit relatively quickly. As Firefox doesn't use this software, their benefit will be less direct and immediate.

2) Chrome is designed to slide right into Android. So Chrome is Google's Mobile web browser (akin to Apple's Safari on the iPhone). Obviously Apple wasn't likely to do something so potentially competitive with the iPhone and Google would be nowhere with a PhoneOS without a web browser.

3) Google's line of web applications (Google Documents, gMail, Google Reader, etc) are currently hobbled by the absence of some key features in the web browsers. By providing an open source web browser that is optimized for enabling these web applications, Google is better able to compete with Microsoft's (and Apple's) more desktop centric application suite.

In the final analysis, short of buying Opera, Google really had little choice but to develop their own web browser.

reinharden]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/93830-web-browser-wars-google-looking-beyond-market-share?source=feed#comment-245474 245474 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:56:45 -0400 msft hasn't a clue, so they're out of it. they couldn't even name their mp3 player something that didn't rhyme with tune (as in iTune). i hear they're paying seinfeld 10 million. so do you think he'll order the zune...in brown?]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/93830-web-browser-wars-google-looking-beyond-market-share?source=feed#comment-245281 245281 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:10:21 -0400
If this were Apple, we'd be confident; Google has a lot of smart people. I hope they're successful. We need another excellent powerful innovator on the Web to advance the technology and to ensure we don't have to experience a "night of the living dead" scenario w/ msft technoshit.
]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/92851-investing-in-the-housing-crisis-aftermath-stock-picks-and-pans?source=feed#comment-245051 245051 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:17:33 -0400
"...with the government offering Frannie and Freddie a bailout, both companies are effectively insured from themselves."
The stockholders would still be wiped out.

"Citigroup has also paid out $18 million in order to settle allegations ...."
$18 million?!?! With write-offs in the billions of dollars the author focuses on an $18 million legal settlement?

"...no end to National City's troubles, and I've got a hunch things will get worse before they get better."
More fascination with potential legal problems that have no bearing on the financial health of National City. With its capital depleted and no prospects of raising more capital a "hunch" things will get worse is a sure bet.

Oh, my god! BAC has actually been "subpoenaed!" This is the metric by which the author declares National City (on the verge of collapse) a better buy than BAC (no rose itself but in better condition than National City).

And now the author's gem of investment wisdom: He recommends MER because its "stock is usually pretty strong." Well so is body odor but I don't recommend it! No mention of billions in write-offs. No mention of additional write offs coming as a result of its "sale" of CDS pools for $.22 on the dollar but the purchaser only put up $.07 on the dollar. No mention of other credit instruments still in MER inventory that might be subject to write offs.

Please! Someone tell me this is a joke! Or at least the beginning of term paper written for the Chulafinee City Community College Remedial Introductory Finance and Auto Body Repair Course. No wonder there is no author's name affixed to this "article."




]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/92851-investing-in-the-housing-crisis-aftermath-stock-picks-and-pans?source=feed#comment-240471 240471 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:51:55 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/92851-investing-in-the-housing-crisis-aftermath-stock-picks-and-pans?source=feed#comment-240387 240387 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:17:12 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/92851-investing-in-the-housing-crisis-aftermath-stock-picks-and-pans?source=feed#comment-240055 240055 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:05:21 -0400
Look further than the press releases, author. And the idea that we're add the end of the housing crisis is fairly preposterous, though certainly the initial, destructive wave has passed.

I guess all entitled to their opinions, since we're all just guessing at the future, but it sure would be nice if Yahoo would find more experienced and informed commentators to include in their so-called "news feed". I've yet to find a seeking alpha blogger than seemed any more insightful than the average stock forum poster.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/92851-investing-in-the-housing-crisis-aftermath-stock-picks-and-pans?source=feed#comment-239921 239921 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:09:51 -0400