Tag: General Electric

The Difference Between Business-People and Financiers

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)

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, […]