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« Last post by tower912 on Today at 07:11:25 PM »Musk secretly bought them.
Crean vs Buzz vs Wojo vs Shaka by The Equalizer
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The Superbar / Re: Marshalls & TJ Maxx / Saks Off 5th & Nordy Rack« Last post by tower912 on Today at 07:11:25 PM »Musk secretly bought them.
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The Superbar / Re: Marshalls & TJ Maxx / Saks Off 5th & Nordy Rack« Last post by jesmu84 on Today at 07:08:36 PM »3
The Superbar / Re: Marquette Crime Reports« Last post by Plaque Lives Matter! on Today at 07:06:18 PM »Fat fingered da M for and N. First mistake this year, aina? Typical Demtist 4
The Superbar / Re: Investing Thread« Last post by Plaque Lives Matter! on Today at 07:00:53 PM »I'm not sure about this statement, although in some ways I have the same question about buybacks as you do. On the other hand, are not shareholders supposed to be rewarded for taking a risk on the performance of the company? What better way to be rewarded than to share in the profits / earnings of the company through share buybacks and distribution of dividends? And what if AAPL believes it is investing the proper amount of capital into R&D for this moment in time? They know much more than I do about how best to put the profits of the company to work. Therefore, just like you, I have questions about the size of the AAPL buybacks, but I can't really fault them for their approach to date. It has worked out really well for me and other shareholders, right? Maybe Apple isn’t the greatest example for the phenomenon but long term growth and innovation is absolutely being affected by stock market return pressure in the modern economy. you can take the “it’s my money and I know how to spend it best” approach but in an increasingly volatile stock price environment the pressure on shorter term, higher and higher returns for shareholders is absolutely stifling innovation. It’s absolutely negatively impacting tech such as meta, google, etc who are caught in the growth at all costs cycle at the expense of their product itself. Google took what they created that is basically a public utility at this point and have torpedoed it into the sh***er because of this perpetual growth model. You simply cannot rely on small business innovation anymore with the economies of scale at play, but the pressure of returns at all costs is so high it’s sabotaging the products themselves 5
The Superbar / Re: Investing Thread« Last post by Plaque Lives Matter! on Today at 06:50:24 PM »The best way to reward shareholders is to invest in growth and innovation. Or in pharma to which I am intimately familiar, your R&D is M&A. (An exaggeration but very common) 6
The Superbar / Re: Marshalls & TJ Maxx / Saks Off 5th & Nordy Rack« Last post by Herman Cain on Today at 06:49:49 PM »Hoping some Scoopers with a Retail/Merchandising background can answer the following: Blame covid...da gift dat keeps on givin', hey?Companies are reducing SKUs in order to maintain in stock levels on Merchandise that moves. The Covid supply chain ripple effect is still a factor in many industries . Primarily the chip shortage which is now about over. Retail merchandising has long lead times as they deal primarily with foreign production. My guess is the situation you are experiencing will change as the economy slows and retailers will need to liquidate better classes of inventory. 7
The Superbar / Re: Investing Thread« Last post by Skatastrophy on Today at 06:47:29 PM »SoCal and Wags: My feeling is that dividends are the better way to reward shareholders, but I appreciate the conversation. The best way to reward shareholders is to invest in growth and innovation. But companies that are out of ideas waste their money on repurchases and dividends instead. Better than having the cash sitting around depreciating. 8
The Superbar / Re: Bodhana Sivanandan« Last post by Scoop Snoop on Today at 06:38:34 PM »She's a kid who plays chess. Translating her chess play to anything but chess is infantile. Strange adjective, but it can work. Remember the movie Chasing Bobby Fischer? The kid was being relentlessly pushed by both his father and a chess coach. They wanted him to be a merciless player, shredding his opponents. To be medieval, bludgeoning his opponents. The italicized words (other than the movie title are, of course, Muggsyisms and appeared in this thread. The same scooper who called for seizing the oil fields in the Mid East and is in favor of sending the American military to take out the bad guys around the globe. He's one tough little guy behind his keyboard. Fortunately, the kid's mother in Chasing Bobby Fischer came down on the father and the coach like a ton of bricks. Remember when the kid threw a game because he obviously wanted out? And have a chance to just be a kid and enjoy other things? I think THAT was what the movie was really about. Muggsy seems to want to relive his childhood vicariously through a 9-year-old girl. I really hope she has a wide range of interests and is allowed by her parents to just be a kid. Muggsy's non-stop use of aggressive words in his posts-whether here or in basketball threads- is very character revealing. 9
Hangin' at the Al / Re: Crean vs Buzz vs Wojo vs Shaka« Last post by The Equalizer on Today at 06:34:41 PM »Actually Crean didn’t recruit Acker, he asked in to play with his buddy after Buckley was canned. But whether Crean recruited two substandard guards to MU and passed them on to Buzz was NOT the point. The point was they were substandard, and leaving the next coach substandard players does NOT amount to leaving a full cupboard. So if Buzz is as good a coach as you keep claiming, I'll ask again why did he keep these substandard players around for a THIRD season after coaching them the previous two? 10
The Superbar / Re: Marshalls & TJ Maxx / Saks Off 5th & Nordy Rack« Last post by 4everwarriors on Today at 06:31:37 PM »Blame covid...da gift dat keeps on givin', hey?
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