WORLD TRADE WAR 3: Welch knew the 2nd Greenspan Profit REcession was coming from GE's vast wealth of e-commerce information networks of all its suppliers, starting with the telltale signs of plastics suppliers reporting order cuts, which meant a slow down would shortly be underway RIPPLE EFFECT throughout the entire vast array of industries that used plastics, that is, EVERYTHING....was the Honeywell merger deal an attempt to capitalize on this inside information is anyone's guess.  But no matter how dangerous you feel GE as a mega multi national corporation is, the point is that this GE+HON merger failure is not just an M&A failure, it is, indeed, the first shot of an errupting WORLD TRADE WAR,  let us call it what it is, WORLD TRADE WAR 3, and like World Trade War 1 lead to the Great War, now called World War I and as World Trade War 2 lead directly to World War II, likewise, this World Trade War 3 will inevitably lead to the seeds of WORLD WAR III sprouting everywhere, and it will be a War against China, the final Asian Land War, let us all hope we do not fail like the Napoleons of the past.  The last World Trade War was started by the stock market crash and Great Depression that lead to Hitler and all the rest, be assured that this time the fault is squarely with Greenspan's Federal Reserve and the Tree and its Branches will be judged by the Fruit that they bear. I am, Truly your$, -Crystal Ball |