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Banks & airlines - will be in the bread line

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    WilburHooksHandsWilburHooksHands Member Posts: 6,742
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    the coogs are really bringing it in this thread
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    SledogSledog Member Posts: 31,604
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    salemcoog said:

    Fuck the airlines, Fuck the Banks and Fuck the Casino's and Fuck the authorities on this whole fake crisis. Bars and restaurant owners should all get together and say fuck you and open their doors. They can't and won't fine them all. And I'm sorry, If you have an existing condition or are old as fuck or abundance. THEN YOU STAY THE FUCK HOME and we'll bring you groceries.

    When are you going to start doing my shopping?

    Bring TP!
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    PurpleThrobberPurpleThrobber Member Posts: 42,329
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    edited March 2020

    Trump just referenced Boeing as arguably the greatest company in the world - pre-grounding that is.

    Said "we're going to help Boeing."

    Again, not sure there's a choice here, but there's also something to be said for corporate Darwinism. We have a system and a philosophy, but with huge, huge exceptions.

    Again, Boeing's CEO's head should have rolled a long time ago. I'm sure they would scream "But but the FAA!". Well, sure.gif. But you put yourself in this situation.

    I give props for going DEEP into the blue state for votes. Inslee probably dug his own grave being Inslee but Trump smells blood in the water.

    You know as well as I do the one who brings the money sets the terms.

    So, for the inept Boeing CEO....well, bye.gif



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    PurpleThrobberPurpleThrobber Member Posts: 42,329
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    dnc said:


    Tangentially relevant

    "It's in the Mail".
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    MikeDamoneMikeDamone Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,781
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    salemcoog said:

    Fuck the airlines, Fuck the Banks and Fuck the Casino's and Fuck the authorities on this whole fake crisis. Bars and restaurant owners should all get together and say fuck you and open their doors. They can't and won't fine them all. And I'm sorry, If you have an existing condition or are old as fuck or abundance. THEN YOU STAY THE FUCK HOME and we'll bring you groceries.

    And fuck the police!
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    LebamDawgLebamDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,576
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    NY times weighs in on banking


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    MikeDamoneMikeDamone Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,781
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    LebamDawg said:

    NY times weighs in on banking


    Chinsightful. Maybe Bloomberg could just divert his next round of campaign spending and give everyone a million dollars?
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    creepycougcreepycoug Member Posts: 22,753
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    dnc said:


    Tangentially relevant

    "It's in the Mail".
    That’s my line!!!

    @DerekJohnson

    @YellowSnow
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    Fire_Marshall_BillFire_Marshall_Bill Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 22,993
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    Fuck the airlines
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    YellowSnowYellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 34,294
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    dnc said:


    Tangentially relevant

    "It's in the Mail".
    That’s my line!!!

    @DerekJohnson

    @YellowSnow
    My patience has about run out. I'll be shifting to a war time footing soon. Let what happened to Pup serve as a warning @creepycoug




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    YellowSnowYellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 34,294
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    The airlines want $58B after they just spent $45B on stock buybacks instead of preparing for this again.

    Fuck this stock buyback shit with a rusty cheese greater. Boeing went from the 707 to 747 in a little over a decade. And they can't figure out new a better replacement for the 737 vs just slapping some more efficient engines on the sucker? Fucking christ. Amazon doesn't seem to have a problem putting all the money back into the company.
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    LebamDawgLebamDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,576
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    The airlines want $58B after they just spent $45B on stock buybacks instead of preparing for this again.

    Fuck this stock buyback shit with a rusty cheese greater. Boeing went from the 707 to 747 in a little over a decade. And they can't figure out new a better replacement for the 737 vs just slapping some more efficient engines on the sucker? Fucking christ. Amazon doesn't seem to have a problem putting all the money back into the company.
    they had already done the more efficient engines - that was the 737NG, about 4 version of it. The Max was a lot of composites and more efficient engines. They obviously rushed it. Software geeks screwing up.
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    SledogSledog Member Posts: 31,604
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    salemcoog said:

    Fuck the airlines, Fuck the Banks and Fuck the Casino's and Fuck the authorities on this whole fake crisis. Bars and restaurant owners should all get together and say fuck you and open their doors. They can't and won't fine them all. And I'm sorry, If you have an existing condition or are old as fuck or abundance. THEN YOU STAY THE FUCK HOME and we'll bring you groceries.

    And fuck the police!
    I just heard all police will stay home for two weeks to avoid the virus. Have some fun.
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    YellowSnowYellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 34,294
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    whlinder said:

    Greed is going to win regardless but in the unintended consequence category was the populist move to "limit" CEO salaries in the 90's.

    So they shifted compensation to stock options thus joining the mythical shareholders in demanding quarterly profit over long term health..

    It is now a perfect storm of doing everything for the daily stock price and nothing for the health of the company, which can be broken up and sold off anyway

    See above. If they can't stop masturbating themselves, the big bad regulators will step in and chop off their collective C-level weenies.

    I'll tip the cap to Alaska Air, announced yesterday their top 2 C's are taking no salary. Maybe there's some goodies hidden somewhere, but the PR move is good.
    The CEO is a UW graduate school grad and the President is on the board at the Foster School of Business. Alaska also spent the lowest percentage of their Free Cash Flow in the past decade on share buybacks of the major US airlines.

    I have some thoughts about airlines, where they are pretty essential companies, but need to be reigned in on certain behavior. Existing shareholders need to take it on the chin first.

    Boeing on the other hand, focusing on the commercial aircraft division, I have no idea what to do with that one. That's a mess. Should never have let McDonnell Douglas take over and run them in to the ground.
    But now that we're here, the new reality is:
    -previous projections for airline passenger growth are out the window and there is now a massive surplus of perfectly suitable aircraft
    -Oil is cheap so all the benefit of new aircraft, which is greater fuel efficiency, is gone

    There is basically no point in building new passenger aircraft right now. However, building airplanes is complicated. China has been trying to copy it for years and has been unable to, or at least to make one which is economically viable. We'd be screwed in 5 to 20 years as a country if we lost BCA's ability to build planes. The intrinsic knowledge isn't replaceable. So bailing Boeing out to the degree that we as a country keep the ability to design and manufacture aircraft is something I believe is critical to America's place in the world's economy.
    Boeing is too important to fail. It’s not even up for discussion.
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    PurpleThrobberPurpleThrobber Member Posts: 42,329
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    whlinder said:

    Greed is going to win regardless but in the unintended consequence category was the populist move to "limit" CEO salaries in the 90's.

    So they shifted compensation to stock options thus joining the mythical shareholders in demanding quarterly profit over long term health..

    It is now a perfect storm of doing everything for the daily stock price and nothing for the health of the company, which can be broken up and sold off anyway

    See above. If they can't stop masturbating themselves, the big bad regulators will step in and chop off their collective C-level weenies.

    I'll tip the cap to Alaska Air, announced yesterday their top 2 C's are taking no salary. Maybe there's some goodies hidden somewhere, but the PR move is good.
    The CEO is a UW graduate school grad and the President is on the board at the Foster School of Business. Alaska also spent the lowest percentage of their Free Cash Flow in the past decade on share buybacks of the major US airlines.

    I have some thoughts about airlines, where they are pretty essential companies, but need to be reigned in on certain behavior. Existing shareholders need to take it on the chin first.

    Boeing on the other hand, focusing on the commercial aircraft division, I have no idea what to do with that one. That's a mess. Should never have let McDonnell Douglas take over and run them in to the ground.
    But now that we're here, the new reality is:
    -previous projections for airline passenger growth are out the window and there is now a massive surplus of perfectly suitable aircraft
    -Oil is cheap so all the benefit of new aircraft, which is greater fuel efficiency, is gone

    There is basically no point in building new passenger aircraft right now. However, building airplanes is complicated. China has been trying to copy it for years and has been unable to, or at least to make one which is economically viable. We'd be screwed in 5 to 20 years as a country if we lost BCA's ability to build planes. The intrinsic knowledge isn't replaceable. So bailing Boeing out to the degree that we as a country keep the ability to design and manufacture aircraft is something I believe is critical to America's place in the world's economy.
    Boeing is too important to fail. It’s not even up for discussion.
    True dat. Except for the discussion part.

    It doesn't seem unreasonable to enter into a public/private partnership whereby the gubmint deploys some of its rocket scientists (NASA brainiacs) to regain the edge Boeing used to maintain.

    Maybe Mad Dog Mattis is available to come in and run the Lazy B.
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