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2008-11-15 Home Front Economy

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Posted by ed 2008-11-15 06:59|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Lets see, while they were destroying capital, I was hauling a rifle around for $10K a year protecting their sorry asses.

F**k them.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-11-15 08:07|| 2008-11-15 08:07|| Front Page Top

#2 When the boards flood the market with so much paper that accountability is lost to institutional investors and portfolio managers who handle the company as nothing more than a 'unit' to wring out as much ROI and who make no effort to insure proper operation of the corporation and the efficiency of the management overhead, is anyone surprise of these results? The underlying basic purpose of the process has disappeared. The paper became the end not the company upon which it was predicated upon.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-11-15 08:55|| 2008-11-15 08:55|| Front Page Top

#3 I hoped that some bright kid at, say, Ohio State University who really wanted to be an oceanographer would read my book, spurn the offer from Morgan Stanley, and set out to sea.

Ahem. Kids, as someone who did become an "oceanographer"[1], I say, take the money. Retire when you're 45, buy your own damn boat. Sell your soul while you can; when you're old, there'll be no takers.

[1]not my actual field

Posted by Angie Schultz 2008-11-15 09:28|| 2008-11-15 09:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Here, here, I'm telling you.
You gotta grab all you can, any time you can.
Cause it may never come your way again.
Once you've stuffed yourself a poke, they you can self-actualize at your leisure.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-11-15 13:05|| 2008-11-15 13:05|| Front Page Top

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