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To: Sam who wrote (3185)	6/15/2015 12:15:27 PM
From: Chip McVickar	Respond to of 26710

Sam - I'm not interested in taking this any further, I've made my point and we disagree... that's just fine. However, I doubt any of the robber barrons liked the Sherman Anti Trust Act - it did place pressure on all of them to respond - it goes on to this day with Gates, etc - and to act more responsibly in the public distribution of their wealth - Carnegie no matter how great an individual - did not escape the public debate "Although few companies actually adopted the form of a "trust," the term rapidly became the catchword in public debate over the government's role in a time of such industrial concentration. Some saw increasing industrial concentration as natural and beneficial. Steel baron Andrew Carnegie said that "this overpowering irresistible tendency toward aggregation of capital and increase of size ... cannot be arrested." Even the progressive-minded journalist Lincoln Steffens remarked: "Trusts are natural, inevitable growths out of our social and economic conditions. ... You cannot stop them by force, with laws." Read more: iipdigital.usembassy.gov

To: Sam who wrote (3185)	8/4/2015 12:08:24 PM
From: Kirk ©	Respond to of 26710

Samsung cutting DRAM capacity to halt price falls, says report Commercial Times; Jessie Shen, DIGITIMES [Tuesday 4 August 2015] Samsung Electronics has scaled down its output for PC DRAM while keeping its August contract prices unchanged, according to a recent Chinese-language Commercial Times report. The move is expected to prevent PC DRAM prices from falling further. Samsung has cut its production of PC DRAM by around 30% and allocated more capacity to DDR4 memory for servers and LPDDR4 chips for smartphones, the report cited unspecified industry sources as saying. The industry leader has also informed its OEM clients that contract prices for its 4GB DDR3 modules will stay flat at US$21, and it will not ship products with prices lower than the level starting August, the sources were quoted as indicating. PC DRAM prices continued their decline in July with contract prices for 4GB DDR3 modules reaching as low as US$20.50, the report said. digitimes.com