General Electric: Genuine Risk of Collapse? [View article]
Chapeau JQ! both for your original article and 2/1/09 follow-up. Won't consider buying GE >$5, if then, as a result; feel sorry for "the mom" who bought $1mio GE stock and pretty soon will receive no more dividend to soften the blow. Thanks JQ!
General Electric: Genuine Risk of Collapse? [View article]
Extremely nsightful and lucid article by J. Quinn and right-on-the-mark commentary by Copperbarron. Couldn't agree more. Thank you both!
On Nov 17 10:12 PM copperbaron wrote:
> >>took over from icon Jack Welch in 2001<< > > Yeah, Immelt took over from Welch, who is wrongly credited as some > sort of management guru. > > The truth is - GE amassed a HUGE amount of leverage under Jack Welch, > almost like a hedge fund. Lots of risky loans and huge debts. But > it was a big bull market, and it didn't blow up in his face. > > Now it is ready to blow up, and Immelt gets blamed?? > > Puh-leeze! Jack Welch is perhaps the most overrated CEO in the history > of American business. He is, without a doubt, one of THE most self-aggrandizing. > The fact that this joker took about $1 BILLION of compensation out > of GE is truly disgusting, and shows how very corrupt and distorted > our business systems are here in the U.S. - from executive pay to > a wildly distorted stock market that overvalued GE for the last twenty > years, at least.
General Electric: Genuine Risk of Collapse? [View article]
both for your original article and 2/1/09 follow-up.
Won't consider buying GE >$5, if then, as a result; feel sorry for "the mom" who bought $1mio GE stock and pretty soon will receive no more dividend to soften the blow.
Thanks JQ!
General Electric: Genuine Risk of Collapse? [View article]
Thank you both!
On Nov 17 10:12 PM copperbaron wrote:
> >>took over from icon Jack Welch in 2001<<
>
> Yeah, Immelt took over from Welch, who is wrongly credited as some
> sort of management guru.
>
> The truth is - GE amassed a HUGE amount of leverage under Jack Welch,
> almost like a hedge fund. Lots of risky loans and huge debts. But
> it was a big bull market, and it didn't blow up in his face.
>
> Now it is ready to blow up, and Immelt gets blamed??
>
> Puh-leeze! Jack Welch is perhaps the most overrated CEO in the history
> of American business. He is, without a doubt, one of THE most self-aggrandizing.
> The fact that this joker took about $1 BILLION of compensation out
> of GE is truly disgusting, and shows how very corrupt and distorted
> our business systems are here in the U.S. - from executive pay to
> a wildly distorted stock market that overvalued GE for the last twenty
> years, at least.