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Japan to the U.S.: 'We Don't Want to Exclude You, But...'

as professor Caroll Quigly rightly observed the mid east comprises of a tribal Patriarchal society Clinton understood this ( Quigley was his history professor) and bush SR. understood it (thats why he stopped short of bagdad ) george Jr who was either drunk or asleep in history class put our foot in this tar baby and now Obama is "unpredictable" as he try's to extricate us from this un manageable mess . to give a quick example of how tribal society's function look at the Palestinians. every time Arafat got 10 chiefs to agree the 11th chief bombed Israel and broke up the talks RATHER THAN SUCCED POWER TO A CENTRAL GOVERNMENT the graft flows up through the family' s and stops at the local chief there's no way these guys want democracy the only way to manage them is to be the baddest mother in the valley aka Saddam. you have a lot of cynical nerve to criticize Obama on this one. the best thing he could do is step out let them fight it out and deal with the winner.

Do Mac and Windows Users Read Blogs Differently?

windows user's are used to 4 or 5 weeks on the phone with tech support every time they try something new or even if they haven't done it in a while and windows disabled it "for their own good" I did notice all my windows using friends stand up at attention when they heard of any other OS than windows that they might use only to sit down again with a look of long suffering resignation when i explained centralized Applications to them.

Apple: Great Products = Great Investment?

rllh has taken a cheap shot at apples price. the forces driving down apples stock have nothing to do with the company and more to do with manipulations by institutional investors . the company has out preformed everybody and in 4 years or so has piled up cash from a meager 4 billion to over 44 billion and a lot is not even counted yet.
go invest in pepsi if you want to see cash coming in (and stock price dropping as soon as its paid ) if you want a dividend from apple. sell a few shares

Gold: Now Demonstrating Trust in Obama

exactly which governments are still on the gold standard?


On Feb 16 08:26 AM Maximus wrote:

> Atlasman,
>
> Don't worry, we are all out of our league and no one knows where
> this is all going.
>
> People who are buying gold are doing so because they think the Obama
> administration in conjunction with the Bernake-led Fed will "do what
> it takes" to keep the economy from collapsing (deflation with high
> unemployment and waves of bankruptcies).
>
> The only way out of this collapse, as the author alludes, is to reinflate
> the economy through the printing of money. With more money in circulation
> and fewer goods, inflation will go up. This is the theory that current
> gold buyers believe in.
>
> There is another theory that says that the government is not currently
> "doing what it takes." Paul Krugman just published an Op-Ed in the
> NY Times saying as much. He claims that we need fiscal stimuli in
> the trillions and not just billions.
>
> If the government doesn't in fact "do enough" (i.e. print money),
> then deflation will take hold and the economy will continue to grind
> to a halt. Gold would likely go down in that scenario and the cash
> would remain king.
>
> One other thing you should be aware of, there are also those who
> talk about manipulation in the gold market: that governments will
> begin shorting gold soon (March) in the hopes of causing a fall and
> later being able to repurchase at a cheaper price.
>
> This later scenario is also possible. Tread into the market carefully.
> If you buy now, make sure you have stop loss orders in place. <br/>
>
> If gold falls significantly in the next few months, I would then
> ramp up my purchases. I think the author is right, Obama and Bernake
> have no politically palatable choice other than to create inflation.

Gold: Now Demonstrating Trust in Obama

As a manufacturing jeweler i have seen these gold prices in the 70's an i saw what happens when everybody decides to dump. the fact is that you can't pay your grocery bill with a dwt of your gold stash. it is a fools paradise to hold a handful of shiny metal and think your any richer than the fools who thought their 200 thousand dollar house was worth a million.
The high prices of gold are ruining my industry and i caution you with the one axiom that has based my trade for 5000 years "gold ( or diamonds) are only worth what the next guy will pay for it !"
guys like this author are basically saying "we can play musical chairs forever the music will never stop" and the banks said "the price of real estate will never go down because they are not making any more land" Get serious! the reason i think the gold price went up in the first place was the arabs who were raping us on the oil price ( (a bid of 10 cents on a contract ups the delivery price 500% )needed a place to park the cash because they knew they would crash the economy . but that damage is done.the new deal starts now . they will be selling gold soon because there are real estate bargains to be had. watch out when the liquidation begins, does the name Bunker Hunt ring a bell?

Orwellian Finance: Is 1984 Happening in 2009?

one thing i will go along with when it comes to who gets the money


"some pigs are more equal than others"

george orwell

It's What Apple's Not Doing That Has Analysts Worried

It took apple decades to build the pricing structure. once broken they can never go back . this is why jobs piled so much cash up… to weather downturns like this. cutting prices means cutting corners and that has always been a disaster for apple. i point out in the early i-book soldering the ethernet port to the mother board with no supports , the weight of the chord was breaking the port free of the motherboard causing apple to replace a bunch of them. as long as value is greater than price apple will do just fine. let the "pc by the pound" pundits fight out the commodity wars Apple will stay above the fray. you don't see Tiffany having a fire sale now do you mr analyst!

Apple's Problems - Bad to the Core?

first news this morning of reception problems testing under strict lab conditions showed no flaw in the hardware www.gp.se/gp/jsp/Cross...

second i have an 850 dual g4 running leopard with out a crash EVER as well as a first generation mini there are a lot of idiot users who screw with the main libraries and have crash problems or have stupid things like pram batteries from the year one going bad and their clocks and dates are always different messing with directories. people do not know these need to be replaced every 5 years or so

dragging out the health issues at this point is just ignorant the only thing you left out of this laundry list was Gil Amelio allowed too many motherboard designs to be produced at once.

i wish you were bright enough to pull off a hatchet job like this

heres an idea (since you apparently have none of your own) for your next article

"Apple sells too many computers and phones in the back to school season, record profits will be difficult to top by christmas is this the beginning of the end for jobs?" or " piles of money at Apple causing dangerous stress on floors of company vaults"

Microsoft: Still Master of the Operating System Domain

to call microsoft an industry leader is an oxymoron. the main reason the OS was so crappy from the beginning was it was a copy of the mac os duct taped to dos. in being everything to everybody it ended up being nothing at all. Steve Balmer at the helm will make the company sweaty,hoarse and even more clueless. counting every beige box that comes with a disk a "sale" is really ludicrous and in a masterful public relations move cutting off the sale of XP ( extra problems) removes the consumer choice to pay extra at the store for a UPdowngrade to xp that many were doing .at his next testosterone fest Balmer will tout the increased adoption of vista as a triumph of its superiority over xp one more example of how out of touch a company can be o no i just got a virus update from mcaffe . . .wheres my credit card . . . my protection is expired what the heck is half ware anyway . . . I'm getting a mac dude!

Apple Surge Expected - RBC

steve jobs is going to have to buy bigger mattress to store all the cash in

Apple Can Disable iPhone Apps, but Should They?

its hard to write a crappy app for a mac because the system uses a resource fork and a data fork in each document or action the app performs. the app calls the system for instance "give me a window" and the toolbox throws up the window and the app developer can go and assign functions to the menus and what not but since the system produces all this stuff for the app its hard for the app to affect the system itself (its a one way relationship) thats why macs are so hard to hack and why apps all have the same look and feel. since there are 2 forks it is not possible to hide commands in information like you can in certain command line interfaces which shall not be mentioned lest we have a sweaty fat guy start yelling "developer" at me

Looking for a Cause for Thursday's Sell-off? Blame Greenspan

Greenspan had to deal with an administration that was hell bent on looting the treasury and lining their pockets for decades to come. I remember the blank stares from the senators when greenspan explained that the surplus that the clintons had left behind could not simply be returned to the bond holders(to reduce the national debt) because most were bearer bonds and with out offering incentives to offset the tax advantages we just did not know who(as a group) they are. thats why we all got that first 600 dollar check the government by law could not keep the money.He is a guy who see what is going on in a world of class "C" dunderheads but he should realize that pointing out that the emperor is naked will have consequences

Apple Math: Market Share over Margins

I'm buying all i can afford. the lower prices will mean (in simple math ) we can choose between owning 100% of one apple or 30% of the whole orchard. the fact that in these conditions there are lines for 3 weeks at the stores is PHENOMENAL

Three Apple Fears That Were Blown Out of Proportion

apple fan anybody Steve's age will have some health challenges but they ARE being managed i am sure he can get the absolute best care possible
and unfortunately the new phone is under the same accounting rules because apple is delivering upgrades for free over the life of the contract length and the law states that until the "whole value " is actually delivered the sale can not be considered "complete" but as was astutely pointed out apple will have use of the cash right away and save gobs on the taxes and the bottom line will grow and grow steadily over the next 5 years regardless of small setbacks in sales. Good news to investors like me if the bearish pundits don't panic the market as they have been doing. this routine unnerving of investors should be as illegal as crying fire in a crowded theater

Steve Jobs: Honesty Is the Best Policy

to all you folks just waiting to take offense at what was an accurate quote there is only one bad word in the entire language that should never be used and that word is NO! i think we're smart enough as a group to not have our lives or psyche ruined for life because someone else said a "bad" word in this case it was a quote and the reporter was right in including the correct expletive if Jobs had used the "c" word i would have known he was MUCH angrier. including the correct expletive allows me to judge the "freighting" of the sentence more subtly