John Sherman

Should GM Be Saved?

What all the economic talking-heads fail to consider is; for example, for most people their vehicle related expenses are second only to their housing costs; as a result, letting the United State major auto industry fail will help to reduce the United States standard of living for the average worker more; it follows, by confirming the United States should just match and continue to strive for manufacturing wage rates the are equal to or less than other countries that its people have lower standards of living than ours yesterday and get paid less for their work results. Let's just see how big and entangled the United State financial economy if the auto industry begins to default, fail, and gone tomorrow?

So, my thoughts are already contained within other comments already made:
"If auto industry fails, then a new equilibrium?" available at:
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Starbucks Will Restructure and Rise Once Again

SBUX lower your coffee prices and the drinkers of coffee will re-appear. Else, just keep selling coffee supplies for the drinkers of coffee like Target, Fred Meyers, and Walmart sells.

The Great Oil Deception: Part Three

Just a Seeking Alpha article idea; for example, Oil prices we pay at the pump, so who are the money beneficiaries from the one gallon retail gasoline sales price as sold?

I believe most people, and that includes me, understands that oil is extracted from some oil well somewhere, transported to an oil refiner process where the oil is converted to gasoline, transported to the gas storage and distribution facility, and finally delivered to my local gas station where I can purchase gasoline at the pump.

So the system of providing value added product called gas seems quite-simple, but who gets how much money for each gallon of gasoline along-the-way when I purchase one-gallon of gasoline at my retail gas station pump now at U.S. retail gas station gasoline prices?

So, an interesting article content would explain who, which specific people, collect how much money starting with how much money does the oil-well pump operation receive for oil from which each gallon of gas that could be extracted and distilled to gasoline products from its well operation, and who pays the oil-well from what cash source. Next, the oil-refiner that buys crude oil for distillation into gasoline and the distiller process pays who and how much for each gallon of potential gas value added oil product input into the refinery. Distribution, the gasoline distribution centers, transport and store gasoline for local delivery pay how much money for each gallon of gasoline and who do they pay for each gallon of gasoline. Finally, my local gas station buys a gallons of gasoline from the local gasoline distributor, so how much does my gas station pay for each gallon of gasoline it sell to me at the advertised pump prices. And I almost forgot, if anybody else are middle-persons in this process of producing and selling gasoline that take a "scope of money" without touching the gasoline product as they move through the process to the retail customer me; as a result, add that names of these people, their title, and where they exist or are inserted into the process of gasoline product, and what benefit do these additional people provide (if they exist) to whom or to the process of producing a value added product called gasoline and at what cost?

I would appreciate a good in-depth article about the economics of production of a gallon-of-gasoline and who gets what money along the production process, and to inform me about things I just don't know that are also in the process that take my and other peoples money for what benefit to whom?

Have a good day, Maybe other people that read your articles would find such a gasoline process and its costs along the way: informative.

Print Is Toast - Ballmer

Who is going to pay for news? You might have noted that the AmazonKindle reader is presently testing providing a subscription or single copy sales for newspapers and magazines; as a result, the subscriber pays a cost and the publishers are beginning to publish for Kindle rendering. I think that will time, experience, and Kindle device customer feedback; as a result, the magazine and newspaper publishers will improve their delivery of client presentation content, and if it is done well subscribers will pay. But, here-again Microsoft is out-of-the news and magazine delivery services loop right now.

Print Is Toast - Ballmer

Steve Ballmer should be more concerned than the newspaper publishers; it follows, will Microsoft still be around in ten years because if all newspaper are not printed on paper; as a result, the electronic delivery of newspapers will be delivered to client presentation handheld devices that do not need Microsoft products technologies for these document deliveries. So goes the paper publishing industry, so goes Microsoft computer products, and here comes new client handheld rendering devices that can present news and magazines in a client presentation user-friendly document navigation format.