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Meet Mr. Market: Jim Cramer

The best one can do is listen to what people who have experience in the market say. It's like asking your butcher what the best steak is for a BBQ... he will give you advice to the best of his knowledge. Jim Cramer does the same and if you know marketing, like I do, when he fails more than he succeeds, he will no longer be consider a leader. There are so many voices out there trying to speculate on the market and one of the most recent is that bonehead at Goldman who downgraded Sirius satellite? Why did he do that? The day he did, the stock dropped dramatically. These are the guys we should really watch out for. I can imagine that same day, some connection to Goldman Sachs purchased the stock cheap and is waiting for it to boom, making even more money in the market.

Once our goverment starts making Wall Streeters more accountable for their actions, maybe this type of hype will stop. These guys who make wrong decisions lose their jobs. People like my Dad, lose their life savings.

GE's Dismal Earnings a Warning for Other Medical Device Companies

You guys realy think you know about medical spending? Fools... ISRG has no competition, high barrier to entry and owns the market. GE sells equipment that is "me too" only from a different company. GE missed it's earning because of other reasons besides what hospitals spend. I worked for medical device companies and the market never dictated our growth... only competitive pressures and in patient admittals. That doesn't change because of the market.

XMSR and Sirius: Bigger Problems Than FCC Approval

All media are competing for your attention. Satellite does compete with iPod or standard radio, etc... because it is competing for X% of your time. The iPod competes for dollars... if you use the iPod in your car, you are buying programming (and an iPod)... so satellite IS competing for your dollars... just as standard radio (through advertising) and iPod (through purchase of the device and accessories and programming).

Why the FCC took so long to approve this merger is the bigger question. Media and TV lobbied against it hard... with big dollars. Why? Does satellite compete with TV too? You bet it does now and more in the future... again, any media that takes time away from you being advertised to, or takes your money, will fight against the same.

This merger should have taken place months ago... instead, the FCC as usual took way too long to review due to lobbiests...aka lawyers for the big media companies. There is not enough room for two satellite companies to operate and be profitble... it's pretty clear... let them merge. If AT&T or Cox wants to get in that space, it would be pretty easy to enter...they own a majority of satellites already. What they are worried about is not entering the market, but giving the merged Sirius and XM Sat too much lead time ahead of them... why? First to market gains most market share.... usually

XMSR and Sirius: Bigger Problems Than FCC Approval

All media are competing for your attention. Satellite does compete with iPod or standard radio, etc... because it is competing for X% of your time. The iPod competes for dollars... if you use the iPod in your car, you are buying programming (and an iPod)... so satellite IS competing for your dollars... just as standard radio (through advertising) and iPod (through purchase of the device and accessories and programming).

Why the FCC took so long to approve this merger is the bigger question. Media and TV lobbied against it hard... with big dollars. Why? Does satellite compete with TV too? You bet it does now and more in the future... again, any media that takes time away from you being advertised to, or takes your money, will fight against the same.

This merger should have taken place months ago... instead, the FCC as usual took way too long to review due to lobbiests...aka lawyers for the big media companies. There is not enough room for two satellite companies to operate and be profitble... it's pretty clear... let them merge. If AT&T or Cox wants to get in that space, it would be pretty easy to enter...they own a majority of satellites already. What they are worried about is not entering the market, but giving the merged Sirius and XM Sat too much lead time ahead of them... why? First to market gains most market share.... usually