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    Long-Short
    Guy
    Feb 21 04:17 PM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    "Drugmakers boosted prices for their 50 top-sellers by 7.82% in 2007, on the heels of 6.73% and 6.22% jumps in 2006 and 2005, in an effort to boost profits in the face of patent expirations and waning pipelines. The ploy could backfire by pushing government to beef-up its regulation of drug pricing."

    Doesn't this mean that the decline in profits when these drugs hit patent expiration will be even sharper?     Reply
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    BC Wayne
    Feb 21 03:14 PM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    Oh please!!! There is more oil coming out of the Middle East than ever. And what do you think would have happened if Saddam was allowed to continue on his path? Typical though. America sucks and it especially sucks if a Republican is in the White House. Reply
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    Tom B
    Feb 21 01:44 PM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    "And can you imagine the price of oil if we had not stabilized the middle east."

    Stabilized? Did you mean to say that. You know,LESS oil is coming out of Iraq than before the war.     Reply
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    BC Wayne
    Feb 21 01:16 PM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    Mr. Barta wants to place blame, yet another time, on President Bush. Let's see now; we have the war, global warming, Katrina relief (3 years later we still are spending tax dollars out the ying yang), torture, Gitmo and baseball steroid use on Bush. How about if the earth is naturally warming, the war has kept the radical muslim morons too busy to plan effect assaults on our soil, water boarding is effective and doesn't harm anyone, and HGH is harmless. Boy, what would you have to talk about for the next month. The real pity is that Mr. Barta cannot bring himself to admit or accept that there are events that cannot and should not be controlled by more Federal Regulations. Regulations got us into the mortgage mess in the first place. Free market supply would have never permitted the financial institutions from lending beyond acceptable tolerances. Our banks were induced by the Fed to create all those vehicles by which they attracted huge numbers of unqualified buyers. Now the banks get to write down the loses, foreclose homes and have insurers (also regulated by the Fed) pay the short falls. You also forgot to mention that basic economics are prevailing in a bifurcated trough and that NAFTA has had a lot to do with it. Not to mention that we are still being taxed to death at the middle to high income levels which is curtailing spending. And can you imagine the price of oil if we had not stabilized the middle east. I hope you are not a financial advisor. You are so lopsided that you could not offer objective advice. Reply
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    Tom B
    Feb 21 09:47 AM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    "Stagflation, a lethal brew of simultaneous inflation and recession, may be hitting the U.S. for the first time since the 1970s."

    Blame the Bush Failed Presidency. Fiscal irresponsibility; military adventures (ineptly executed, at that); undirected tax cuts; lack of regulatory oversight of financial institutions.     Reply
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    ED K
    Feb 18 08:19 PM
    Jim Cramer's In-Depth Lightning Round, 2/15/08: Sorry Martha! [view article]
    IF YOU REALLY BELIEVE GM IS A BUY,YOU ALSO BELIEVE IN THE TOOTH FAIRY,SANTA AND THE EASTER BUNNY.WHAT WAS THAT LOSS PER SHARE,$68.45 THAT'S TWO AND A HALF+TIMES THERE CURRENT STOCK PRICE OF$26.13.BY THE WAY 96.50% OF THERE STOCK IS OWNED BY INSTITUTIONS.SELL,SELL... Reply
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    whidbey
    Feb 13 11:06 AM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    Aside from the takeover methods of MSFT, we need to know what they will "do" with Yahoo if they are successful. We know that they ran MSN 15 years and it never emerged from obscurity; what can they do different if Steve acquires Yahoo??? To put it simply: why not a nice big dividend ? We know that works well. Oh yes, dump Balmer is a great second move. We need to look past the short run. When the existing software becomes passe' MSFT ceases to exist. JWC Reply
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    CrossProfit
    Feb 12 07:13 PM
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    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    Thomas,
    Suggest you read "Backfire": Carly Fiorina's High Stakes Battle for the Soul of Hewlett Packard

    See
    www.powells.com/biblio...

    Also, a few lessons can be learned from other successful proxy fights, three very different types come to mind;
    1) Airtran/Midwest Air 2007 (see blogs.law.harvard.edu/...)
    2) Diamond Fields International Ltd. (TSX:DFI) 2002
    3) Rentrak Corp. (Paul Rosenbaum) 2000

    CrossProfit     Reply
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    Tom B
    Feb 12 01:47 PM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    "Microsoft has assembled a team of advisors that could assist it in launching a proxy fight"

    Man, they need to lay off the sauce in Redmond. Has a proxy fight EVER been successful?     Reply
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    Tom B
    Feb 06 01:29 PM
    Under The Radar News - Wednesday [view article]
    "Microsoft shareholders come to Yahoo's aid. Microsoft shareholders have sold off the stock,"

    The stock price of potential acquirers in M&A's usually goes down. The fact that MSFT has slipped only a bit in a bear market, if anything, implies that MSFT stockholders are delusional and fail to comprehend how negatively a Yahoo deal will erode shareholder value, especially over the long term.     Reply
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    Daniel Jones
    Feb 05 10:59 AM
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    The Short Case on HSBC Holdings [view article]
    Wow - volatility indeed does reign. Be careful out there everyone. Reply
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    User 142738
    Feb 05 09:21 AM
    Global Equity Market Caps: U.S. Loses Ground to China [view article]
    China is hellbent on photocopying the successes -- and shortcomings -- of the United States. They're rationing gasoline and fixing food prices in a futile 1970's-style inflation war.

    Also, the two-letter abbreviation for China is "CN"; "CH" is Switzerland. I was a bit confused.     Reply
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    helplessobse
    rver
    Feb 03 09:29 PM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    I somehow think investors and the markets do not comprehend how serious the troubles in the financial sectors are. Every time a bank takes a CDO on to its balance sheet is equivalent to making a big loan without even knowing the name of the borrower or even worse nothing about his financial circumstances. I frankly have never seen anything like this in my years of borrowing and investing. Loan officers I've encountered over the years were tough cookies. Nothing good can come from these going on. Reply
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    tom kern
    Jan 31 02:30 PM
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    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    Yes the price is being priced in . Higher prices, starting with the price of crude. Sorry to say if history prooves correct.Will just have to roll with punches on this puppy. Reply
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    Lisa
    Jan 31 12:20 PM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    The UPS news is yet another negative data point on the economy. Surprised the market isn't picking this up. Or maybe a really glum economic outlook is already priced in. Reply
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