One century ago Republican Theodore Roosevelt was elected president and instituted sweeping changes in government, including the establishment of an estate tax and the national park system. What followed was an economic boom that lasted for years. Roosevelt knew the importance of circulating wealth in order to revitalize the economy by investing in key infrastructure, … Continue reading Estate Tax and Tax Equity: Bill Gates Sr. Battles Son Bill Gates Jr. as Grover Norquist and Warren Buffett Weigh In
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Today Eliot Spitzer announced his resignation as Governor and perhaps the two most ironic twists are his ill fated pilgrimage to the "Mayflower Hotel" and the name he used to check in, George Fox. George Fox, a hedge fund manager, is his close friend. Clearly Fox and the moral ethical desert embodied by hedge funds … Continue reading Hedge Funds, Buffett, Gates and Murdoch Take Down Eliot Spitzer
On October 31, 2007 the NY Times wrote a story on former SEC Chair Levitt's public pension concerns yet decided to not include the single most important fact, that being that Levitt is on the board of directors of RiskMetrics, a firm which creates derivative products for hedge funds and is now attempting an IPO. … Continue reading Arthur Levitt Issues Pension Warning, SEC, RiskMetrics, ISS, Gates Foundation
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Tektronix $2.8 billion sale to D.C. based Danaher Corporation is a dramatic example of top executives marketing a company's sale to benefit themselves and thereby breaching its duty to shareholders and other stakeholders. According to the WSJ, Merrill Lynch's CEO has tried the same trick yet the board is now considering firing him over making … Continue reading Tektronix Corporation Sale Mirrors Merrill Lynch CEO Attempt to Sell
When Microsoft announed its "HealthVault" concept I frankly just burst out laughing. It was back in 1999 when I proposed this concept to Intel Capital, the idea being to establish a place at Intel.com where users could store sensitive information, in particular health care records. The idea was to drive the project, not from a … Continue reading Obstacles Facing Microsoft’s HealthVault Initiative
It is ironic that in the 1990's by aggressivly destroying competitors and also prohibiting the sale of content on the internet by giving content away for free, Microsoft essentially paved the road for Google's business model, the sale of privacy to advertisers. Google is a great company yet it's business is simple, it sells privacy, … Continue reading Microsoft and Google’s Untapped Frontier
In a major victory for the Linux operating system, Russia has mandated that all Russian schools will be using open source software by 2009. Open source is indeed a great learning environment and it is unfortunate that students here in the US continue to have their educations dumbed down by being forced to use Windows … Continue reading Microsoft Suffers Major Setback in Russia
I use various Google products, including Gmail. Yet I do so with the knowledge that Google's primary business is the sale of privacy, not technology. It is hilarious to see Congress debate privacy issues surrounding Google's proposed acquisition of doubleclick. And Microsoft's attempt to block the acquisition misses the key point, a tax loophole Google … Continue reading Inside Story on how Microsoft got Googled
The following report regarding Microsoft's financial practices is the most widely read report on my website since 1999. Numerous major news stories have appeared based upon the report titled Microsoft Financial Pyramid Summary. In late 2002 Barrons requested a 1,200 word article about Microsoft and I chose the topic of why Microsoft should pay a … Continue reading Microsoft – An Update