Dvorak almost says something clever

[William Park]

On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 12:18:21AM -0400, Christopher Browne wrote:
> ...
> This is why interesting things only tend to happen around companies
> that are young enough NOT to have any retired employees.
> 
> It's worth noting that in the US market, the "mature" airlines all
> have market caps near $2B (as does AMR); the one worth $5.5B is
> SouthWest, the one that isn't old enough to have retirees.
> 
> I haven't been putting any *known* portions of my portfolio into GM or
> AMR; I'd buy overpriced bits of Yahoo! first, and that's presumably
> why Yahoo!'s market cap is twice that of GM and Ford.

But, that doesn't explain VW, Toyota, or Honda.  I think, GM/Ford simply
build cars that people don't want to buy, and then blame their
competitions for selling better cars.

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