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I'm not as worried about the Jobs issue as I am that AAPL is vulnerable to having their products commoditized. The price of Apple products is still overly inflated for what you get IMHO. The industries they are in evolve rapidly, at one time Palm was considered unstoppable

although valuations are compelling, it is hard to figure out how they are going to replace all the lost revenue from the growing open source movements, net books, free office software, and other factors which have commoditized their core businesses by the way, how much of Gates' wealth is...

the earnings smoothing they were doing is not the same as fraud

don't you worry that cold-calling could annoy people and hurt your chances? annoy someone enough and you could even end up informally blacklisted

"GE's industrial businesses are clearly worth more than the current share price," wrote Nigel Coe, of Deutsche Bank, in a note to clients. "Our view is that while there is a whiff of further funding requirements -- be it public equity or government funded -- the stock will remain oversold and...

a lot of these homes aren't brand new though, they're used

Has anybody gotten their fax machine to work in conjunction with Comcast's Triple Play service? I have an HP fax machine I want to hook up. I called Comcast but the CSR wasn't sure what to tell me.

one thing GE has going for it though is they lend against hard assets, i.e. they can repossess your washing machine or whatever. Also the lending division is only part of GE, as opposed to banks.

if you want to get diversified exposure to commodities now, what is the best option?

What is the best APR you are earning these days for leftover cash in your brokerage account? APR has come down across the board

for where? got a link?

interesting, is it true that CFAs start out at these salaries? seems high for starting salaries. anyone else want to weigh in on this?

seems unlikely in this market environment

I'm not sure they do get GE stock in their 401k. I thought the official policy for a lot of the on-air staff was no stock ownership of any stock at all allowed. Exceptions for Fast Money crew and Cramer and some others.

CDS coming in, fell to 17%

link?

if Americans are hired instead, that's more money American employees will have and generally will be spent in the American economy. A portion of money H1Bs earn is often sent back to their home country and thus doesn't benefit the American economy

cgtrader, what is it that makes you sometimes think he would have been bought and paid for by bankers?

now lawyers are getting hit http://www.boston.com/jobs/news/articles/2009/03/02/boom_times_turn_bleak_for_boston_lawyers/ what careers, if any, are safe havens for American workers?

is there any way they could split off the insurance division (which they want to save to protect policy holders) from the financial products division (the black hole)?