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Altria: Tobacco Stock at a Discount

User - You have hit on the delicious (?) irony on fhe state's " fight " against big tobacco - don't forget , either , the taxes generated for the states by the sale of tobacco products ...

Dividends Get No Respect

Because i happen to agree with this article , I happen to agree w/ its author ..
I have always reinvested dividends - akin to dollar cost averaging as far as I am concerned ..

The BofA / Merrill Mess - A Misguided Mob Goes After the Wrong Guy

Ken Lewis is a coward in every sense of that word ... Period ...

Shareholder Activists Week in Review: Winners and Losers

Ackman is living proof that it is still possible today for 1 of the " smartest guys in the room " to throw good money after bad at a clearly losing proposition ...

Time to Reenter GE

If there is a God , GE would shove Immelt out the door and let him wind up in the One's administration where he belongs ...

Shareholders: Look What CEOs Are Doing with Your Money

Once again : " Let the shareholders eat cake ... "

Jeff Immelt's GE: A Study in Corporate Leadership

I have echoed the mantra of Jack Welch before in these environs when the subject of Immelt has come up - Immelt would not have survived more than a year or two under Jack's " Rank 'em and yank 'em " policy - the bottom 10% of management was subject to that annual digital - like exam and those who fell into that bottom tier were given a copy of the Home Game - Broom Immelt out the door now - He lost any semblnce of credibility with me and I venture a good number of other GE stockholders when he did the about face re. GE's dividend earlier this year - A lot of people reasonably relied to their direct financial detriment upon Immelt's representation about the safety of the then GE dividend - The implosion of GE Capital occurred entirely on his watch - Fool me once .........

Shareholder Communications: Kudos to GE's Immelt, Dominion

If anyone thinks that Immelt has done any kind of a satisfactory job while overseeing a company whose common stock fell from the mid 30's to $6 / and is now " back ' up to $ 12/ , well I am here to tell you that individual needs some acute care - I say to anyone who will listen , apply Jack's " rank 'em and yank 'em " policy and see how long Immelt would have survived - The only advice appropriate for Immelt at that point would have been : " don't let the door hit you on the way out Slick .. "

Shareholder Communications: Kudos to GE's Immelt, Dominion

You praise Immelt's job performance which necessarily includes candor ? Get serious -
Just who in the hell was responsible for " real engineering being traded for financial engineering " ?
How much do you figure GE Capital has been responsible for the boggling losses experienced in GE's common stock ?
When were you ever long GE ?
Repeat : Get serious !

Chesapeake Energy CEO in Questionable Compensation Deal

" The rich get richer and the poor have babies ..... "

AIG Bonuses the Object of Misplaced Outrage

Shocked !! What - gambling at Rick's Place ?????

Moral Hazard: A Danger to Our Financial System

Excellent read , Tom - thanx ...

Bank Insiders Made Out Like Bandits

User 138602
The correct adage is ;
" The rich get rich and the poor have babies .. "

Would Genentech Be Better Off Left Alone by Roche?

DNA clearly doesn't need Roche - it's the other way around from what I can see .. DNA is in a win-win-win situation or as we say in the South , it's " sitting in the catbird's seat " - at least for now ......

In Light of Peak Oil, Financial Diversification Is a Bad Idea

To Scott Benson :
WORD ......