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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: bentway who wrote (585133)9/18/2010 1:22:34 PM
From: combjelly  Respond to of 1582475
 
"The thing is, I believe it's actually BETTER for corporations if EVERYONE's boat rises. I think this is the clear lesson of the 90's."

Blame the quarterly report. Because that is the primary metric, anything that has short term effects gets primacy. So the CEO is focused on making his numbers for the quarter instead of dong what is best for the long term.