PRESIDENT OBAMA, YOU BECOME MORE LIKE NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN EVERY DAY
Neville Chamberlain, as Prime Minister of Great Britain during the thirties, believed a commitment to peace was the better route to handle grievances between countries and thus appeasement would thwart the aggressive demands of any dictator by removing the need for him to adopt such strong-arm tactics. While it was a very noble principle, Adolf [...]
TAKEOVER/MERGER MANIA UNFORTUNATELY GETTING BACK TO NORMAL
When I became an investor (believe me, very small) in New Zealand listed companies in the seventies, the New Zealand Stock Exchange listed a hundred or so companies that represented local commerce from banking, retail, wholesale, auto wholesale/retail, manufacturing, export, forestry/timber, primary produce, fruit and vegetables, transportation, chemicals/pharmaceuticals, fishing to housing and food processing; in [...]





