Andrew Stergiou

East vs. West: China Plays a Better Long Term Hand

Execellent article one of the best I read in a long while too bad most Americans can not get their short term political problems out of the way to realize the same rational understanding as was presented in this article.

I am glad the libertarain period that started with the idiocy of the Reagan Era has ended it never worked, and panned out in coincide with my statements that once government is reduced corporations and the private sector take over but then as tyrants as foxes in the hen house.

Yahoo: Where's Icahn as Stock Dips Below $10?

That's the problem with a speculative market envirnment do you think that most people buy stocks solely for the dividends? The US government under a reactionary ethos of greed since Reagan (I include Clinton as a crypto Republican) has encouraged all that you now see in this economic crisis:

After all it is easier to raise taxes based on baseless paper profits and speculation rather than real industry labor and efforts.

The have undermined small bussiness and entrepeneurs at the same time idiots like Palin claim to support it.

What American needs is a democratic revolution and not one by Reagan's ghosts.


On Nov 13 06:58 PM Monkeyman wrote:

> Seriously? We're discussing this? Look, if Yang made the deal w/
> MSFT, shareholders MIGHT have been better off considering the current
> economic situation, but the company definitely would NOT have been,
> especially considering the current economic situation.
>
> Compare the charts of YHOO, GOOG, and MSFT:
>
> finance.yahoo.com/echa...;range=1y;compare=msft...
>
>
> Both Yahoo and Google are moving comparatively, as well as MSFT.
> Yahoo is not like Ford or GM, it is making money and it isn't dying.
> Their search is actually better than Google, particularly for technical
> and specific searches, and they are gaining market share in the search
> market. There's too many people stuck on the quick buck they could
> have made ( which is only if they sold their shares once the buy-out
> happened, otherwise, they'd be losing if holding onto converted MSFT
> stock or reinvesting in the market ).
>
> Icahn did not care about the shareholders, he did not care about
> Yahoo, or the employees of Yahoo. He cared about making a quick buck.
> He bought a few hundred million shares averaging in the mid 20's
> and hoped to get them sold to MSFT at $31 a share ( people keep quoting
> $33, but that was never on paper ). And Icahn is probably not losing
> as much, or any, money right now, because he most likely hedged all
> of his shares by buying PUTS on them ( did no-one notice the premiums
> on the stock options during that time? ).
>
> Yahoo's stock price right now is where it is at mainly because of
> the economy, just like many, many other companies out on the market.
> The company I work for has seen it's stock price drop 70-80%, and
> is below the actual worth of the company, when we're meeting all
> of our guidelines and even raising them.