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Re: Has Microsoft commited suicide ...

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From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 17:28
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On 2018-04-27, Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Interesting article on MarketWatch a day or so about Sears. Apparently
> Eddie Lampert, the guy who bought it thru his hedge fund was interested in
> maximizing "shareholder value" at the  expense of everting else. There's no
> long-term  in p%ssing off your employees and customers to milk a couple
> more dollars from it.

Who's thinking long term?  Take the money and run.

> The article writer said it might be heresy to Wall Street to suggest that
> this was a bad idea.

FSVO "bad".  Lampert made money, so it's by definition good.

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