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MSFT is the new GM

I am home sick today, so what do i do with my time?

IM with our crack analyst Charlie about his decision to sell his GM stock after he left GM to join us, of course.

That led to a little fun with Yahoo charts which in turn led to Charlie's blog post on the subject.

His post is great, so I won't add anything to it other than a larger view of the chart.

His is too small for my 43 year old eyes.

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Posted March 16, 2005 in Venture Capital and Technology

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this is "the fallacy of coincidence".

GM is at a competitive disadvantage vs. Toyota and Honda on a number of levels: productivity, pension contributions, health care contributions. all other things being equal, it is at a structural cost disadvantage, in large part due to US health care policies.

MS is in a dominant position in their market and at a competitive disadvantage to noone. Perhaps you can argue that Google is structurally changing the market (so that software such as MS sells can no longer BE sold). Somehow I don't think this is your argument.

Posted by: bruce b. | Mar 16, 2005 2:28:36 PM

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