Tag: GE

Tax Rates and the Fiscal Cliff (a/k/a the ALLEL-GBTD-HSS-2001)

Thursday, November 8, 2012 at 1pm
By John Friedman

We now return to our normally scheduled program . . . *  *  * The election of 2012 is over and at least day-and-a-half-after debriefed. My how things have changed. Looking back we see how:      Twelve years ago we, as a nation, made decisions which, when aggregated, were […]

The Difference Between Business-People and Financiers

Wednesday, September 19, 2012 at 3pm
By John Friedman

Recently we’ve been exposed to a great example of the difference between business-people and financiers, in the guise of a clearly successful financier asserting, quite a bit more broadly, that he was a clearly successful business-person. I speak, of course, of Mitt Romney, private equity hero, repeatedly asserting that he […]

The New Generals: AAPL and MSFT (G vs. V)

Thursday, June 3, 2010 at 12pm
By John Friedman

Much has been written in the past week about the value of Apple, as a company, now exceeding the value of Microsoft as a company. The more jargony way of saying this is that that AAPL’s market capitalization (often trun cated down tomarket cap) exceeds MSFT’s market capitalization. In fact, […]