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Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

Domestic car companies have never taken fuel efficiency seriously. Is it any wonder why they have lost the market to VW, Honda, Toyota, even Kia and Hundai?

Hybrids are a joke. You pay way too much, and the weight of the car is such that the gains are minimal. You can't possibly drive slow enough not to engage the guzzler engine, and you can't possibly save enough on fuel to pay for all the complex technology. And, all this assumes you will have no problems with the incredibly complex vehicles, which is virtually impossible, especially given the Ford and GM track record on reliability.

GM had the EV-1, in reaction to the CAFE standards, which people in the test program loved. GM would not let people keep the cars and had them all destroyed when the CAFE standards were gutted by the right wing administration and the EPA. Check out the documentary called 'Who Killed the Electric Car'. It's an eye-opener. These were sporty and did zero to 60 faster than most gas guzzlers.

Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

Verizon already has a horrible line-up of phones. Now, they are going to put MS search on there so that their customers can't find anything? I guess it's just as well since none of their 'smart' phones can browse the web.

Changes in Market Cap for Biggest U.S. Companies

Go Apple, taking MSFT market away from them, both companies deserve this turn of events, and with iPhone, iPod, iTablet? (september?) where MSFT has absolutely nothing, it's only a matter of time.

Will Yahoo Settle? Fast Money Recap (5/28/08)

I hope MSFT does go in debt to buy Yahoo. As if MS didn't already have their own failed search division, and failed internet division.

Expect a sucker punch from Apple about that time. Apple has in it's skunkworks, a dumbed down version of OS X that runs on any generic PC. It has far more going for it than any version of windows, still leaves a reason to buy a real macintosh, but could totally destroy MS's marketshare within months. Microsoft still has the toy business to fall back on with the Xbox line.