Mexican president Felipe Calderon, talking about the proposed global bank tax:
If the global economy builds a fund in order to bail out banks – you can be sure that there will be bailouts in the future.
I hope the Canadian Prime Minister will convince the EU leaders to scrap their plan for yet another tax. After imposing all sorts of taxes on the EU taxpayers, these guys are starting to spread their brilliant ideas across the globe.
New York Times:
The moment came Wednesday when Apple, the maker of iPods, iPhones and iPads, shot past Microsoft, the computer software giant, to become the world’s most valuable technology company.
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Anybody cares to remember Michael Dell’s solution for Apple back in 1997?
What would I do? I’d shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders.
Stanislav Datskovskiy:
I argue that Apple now has not one but two monopolies:
I) A nearly-total monopoly on computer (and pocket computer) systems designed with good taste.
II) A total monopoly on the Microsoft-free, hassle-free personal computer. [1]Mr. Jobs is indeed starting to behave like that other convicted monopolist we know and love. Yet unlike the latter, Jobs did not engage in underhanded business practices to create his monopolies. They were handed to him on a silver platter by the rest of the market, which insists on peddling either outright crap or cheap imitations of Apple’s aesthetic.
Full article here
Via Daring Fireball
The Apple.com home page was changed today to a memorial for board member Jerome York. I’ve never seen this happening at any other company. It shows yet again that Apple is different.
If I were him I would quietly slip out of the public eye.
Nu avem oameni pregătiţi, nu avem teoreticieni, nu avem oameni care să se fi confruntat vreodată cu o bulă speculativă. Avem doar ex-funcţionari CEC ajunşi pe la bănci private şi “ofiţeri bancari” cu diplomă de Spiru Haret sau ASE cu teste grilă. Prostia inerentă sistemului s-a suprapus peste lipsa de educaţie a populaţiei şi tot acest melanj de pseudo-inteligenţă a fost vegheat cu grijă de Proasta supremă, Clasa Politică.
Atit de adevarat incit doare, mai ales cind faci parte din sistem.
As a GE employee you can’t be taken by surprise when the company is selling parts of it. It’s the GE way, buying businesses, building them and eventually selling them.
More details about the deal
