Good points.
The only thing I know about (as a non-expert) that might be worth
adding is that that there are some people in the "legitimate"
investment sector that supposedly ran some extremely unethical (and
large scale) "pump-and-dump" type operations (short sales, and so
forth) on high-te
Which is why, when you put all your eggs into that basket, you WATCH THAT BASKET!!!
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I don't know if I necessarily agree with that. What if their financial
report from the past 3 years shows a lot of growth. Well if you don't
investigate the company an
I don't know if I necessarily agree with that. What if their financial
report from the past 3 years shows a lot of growth. Well if you don't
investigate the company and find anything out about it, you could be
getting yourself into trouble. What if they just replaced mgmt and he/she's
a meat h
I agree, Tim.
Everything is relative to the context -- Oracle is well positioned right
now, as are the other companies that produce tangible products.
There are thousands of people who "played" with Internet stock trading, many
of them buying shares on margin. Now they were burned a little, the
Wait just a second, are you saying that "the press" (or, if
you prefer "journalistic corporate media") might be
sensationalizing things about the "bad economy" just to get
keep their readership/viewer levels high?
GASP! :)
We aren't that full of cr*p in this country, are we? :)
regards,
I also heard (anecdotally), that Oracle had no long term debt and little
short-term debt, so their profits aren't going to service debt, and that
they had a pretty big chunk of cash just lying around.
Dan
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