Charles A. Boy Jr.'s Comments RSS Syndication from SeekingAlpha.com http://seekingalpha.comuser/225120/comments http://seekingalpha.com/article/127278-there-s-revolution-in-the-air?source=feed#comment-438447 438447 We had "The Phone Company". Pay phones could connect you to the world. There came a time, in the 1980's when I felt I was on a financial treadmill. It's been one financial scandal after another since. "Greed is Good", but the real footings of daily life have steadily eroded. With all the great new ideas from financial geniuses, ordinary Americans are back in the shit. Congradulations to the business schools. You assholes, you have done what no foreign power was capable of doing. I feel like Charton Heston in the last scene of "Planet of the apes".]]> Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:40:43 -0400 We had "The Phone Company". Pay phones could connect you to the world. There came a time, in the 1980's when I felt I was on a financial treadmill. It's been one financial scandal after another since. "Greed is Good", but the real footings of daily life have steadily eroded. With all the great new ideas from financial geniuses, ordinary Americans are back in the shit. Congradulations to the business schools. You assholes, you have done what no foreign power was capable of doing. I feel like Charton Heston in the last scene of "Planet of the apes".]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/123372-will-obama-be-re-elected?source=feed#comment-408504 408504 Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:00:26 -0500 http://seekingalpha.com/article/117671-risk-management-or-risk-manipulation?source=feed#comment-372446 372446 Sun, 01 Feb 2009 09:37:14 -0500 http://seekingalpha.com/article/114060-warren-vs-treasury-cont-d?source=feed#comment-351752 351752 is not a breach of confidentiality. E. Warren is speaking critically of complete secrecy and rightly so. If the recipients cooperated, that is what would be reported, sans strategic details. The recipients have no legs to stand on. This autonomy demanded by the culture of the financial class is way over the top. Choose. Can't have it both ways. I think we are overdue to do a lot of rethinking about "Free Enterprise" in an electronic world.]]> Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:58:17 -0500 is not a breach of confidentiality. E. Warren is speaking critically of complete secrecy and rightly so. If the recipients cooperated, that is what would be reported, sans strategic details. The recipients have no legs to stand on. This autonomy demanded by the culture of the financial class is way over the top. Choose. Can't have it both ways. I think we are overdue to do a lot of rethinking about "Free Enterprise" in an electronic world.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/110536-detroit-s-been-in-trouble-before-why-this-time-is-different?source=feed#comment-328913 328913 Sun, 14 Dec 2008 09:16:21 -0500 http://seekingalpha.com/article/109755-why-elizabeth-warren-is-a-brilliant-choice-to-oversee-tarp?source=feed#comment-325944 325944 as a result of her grad students participating in a 7 year, 13 university, interview based study. When put together and published it was titiled "The Poverty Study". Suddenly she is this wild consumer advocate? Bull shit. Facts hurt. Read the book.]]> Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:06:48 -0500 as a result of her grad students participating in a 7 year, 13 university, interview based study. When put together and published it was titiled "The Poverty Study". Suddenly she is this wild consumer advocate? Bull shit. Facts hurt. Read the book.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/109755-why-elizabeth-warren-is-a-brilliant-choice-to-oversee-tarp?source=feed#comment-325941 325941 I live in Barney's district. He needs no extra votes. Not one. Jesus himself couldn't defeat Barney. ]]> Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:00:49 -0500 I live in Barney's district. He needs no extra votes. Not one. Jesus himself couldn't defeat Barney. ]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/109755-why-elizabeth-warren-is-a-brilliant-choice-to-oversee-tarp?source=feed#comment-325940 325940 The Comptroller of the Currency was heard to say "So what?".]]> Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:56:10 -0500 The Comptroller of the Currency was heard to say "So what?".]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/105660-reasons-to-bail-out-gm?source=feed#comment-305054 305054 Having listened to many opinions about Detroit's needs and much of the bailout debate, I favor the bankruptcy strategy Ackman sees as the best alternative.]]> Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:09:05 -0500 Having listened to many opinions about Detroit's needs and much of the bailout debate, I favor the bankruptcy strategy Ackman sees as the best alternative.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/105109-why-the-detroit-bailout-should-include-bankruptcy?source=feed#comment-303451 303451 Detroit has been buying parts from Korea and Mexico for the last 20 years. Assembly is mostly Canadian. Why? Among other things, Canada has a national health insurance system.
What's left are an overpaid few who make outrageous money compared with other industries doing the same kind of work. NAFTA has benefitted them enormously. What difference did it make? Look, GM and Ford have spent a fortune facilitating Shanghai with plant and equipment. They have Design Centers there! It was expected that both would become exclusively importers of vehicles into this country. How about ending this bail out insanity and get back to real business?]]> Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:11:13 -0500 Detroit has been buying parts from Korea and Mexico for the last 20 years. Assembly is mostly Canadian. Why? Among other things, Canada has a national health insurance system.
What's left are an overpaid few who make outrageous money compared with other industries doing the same kind of work. NAFTA has benefitted them enormously. What difference did it make? Look, GM and Ford have spent a fortune facilitating Shanghai with plant and equipment. They have Design Centers there! It was expected that both would become exclusively importers of vehicles into this country. How about ending this bail out insanity and get back to real business?]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/104987-ben-stein-watch-november-8-2008?source=feed#comment-302432 302432 Truth is, as far as I can research, GM & Ford will essentially be Chinese companies by 2015 whether we bail them out or not. Shanghai will be the largest concentration of design and production in GM and Ford's history. Seems that both are enjoying record profits overseas; Domestic markets are their downfall. Especially now that truck sales, their lifeline, are way down. Ford has, though, opened one shift to make the F150, sales are up again now that gasoline is so cheap. They have no domestic market left. Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Mazda, Hyundai, KIA,
even VW, will insure that. Since the Arabs turned off the spigot in 1973, seems like Detroit could not adapt. In 35 years, they could not abide the "Japs" ever overtaking them and kept putting out "Detroit Iron". We gave them NAFTA and that didn't save them. I will buy a Japanese TV made in China and not think twice about it. When I think back, funny how the Japanese have contributed more positive benefits to my consumer life than any American company. Does Ben care? No bail out for Ford or GM! Help retrain their workers, even help them relocate. We need nurses and doctors in rural areas. We need so many things they could be retrained to do. In WWII, surgical technicians were trained because doctors were in short supply. We can do the same kind of thing this time around.
]]> Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:08:10 -0500 Truth is, as far as I can research, GM & Ford will essentially be Chinese companies by 2015 whether we bail them out or not. Shanghai will be the largest concentration of design and production in GM and Ford's history. Seems that both are enjoying record profits overseas; Domestic markets are their downfall. Especially now that truck sales, their lifeline, are way down. Ford has, though, opened one shift to make the F150, sales are up again now that gasoline is so cheap. They have no domestic market left. Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Mazda, Hyundai, KIA,
even VW, will insure that. Since the Arabs turned off the spigot in 1973, seems like Detroit could not adapt. In 35 years, they could not abide the "Japs" ever overtaking them and kept putting out "Detroit Iron". We gave them NAFTA and that didn't save them. I will buy a Japanese TV made in China and not think twice about it. When I think back, funny how the Japanese have contributed more positive benefits to my consumer life than any American company. Does Ben care? No bail out for Ford or GM! Help retrain their workers, even help them relocate. We need nurses and doctors in rural areas. We need so many things they could be retrained to do. In WWII, surgical technicians were trained because doctors were in short supply. We can do the same kind of thing this time around.
]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/103738-driven-to-bankruptcy?source=feed#comment-297973 297973 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:52:06 -0500 http://seekingalpha.com/article/86400-more-bad-news-for-the-anti-ethanol-crowd?source=feed#comment-212401 212401 Corn politics is most powerful among lobbies. Corn is King. The PNAC crowd loves BIG anything. No surprises here with corn ethanol. Numbers be damned.
Corn for fuel can be replaced with a wide variety of vegetable sources and even organic waste. That is not profitable enough. A pity. Is that what market forces really mean?
]]> Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:25:38 -0400 Corn politics is most powerful among lobbies. Corn is King. The PNAC crowd loves BIG anything. No surprises here with corn ethanol. Numbers be damned.
Corn for fuel can be replaced with a wide variety of vegetable sources and even organic waste. That is not profitable enough. A pity. Is that what market forces really mean?
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