Interesting comment from Ralph Nader

On a broader note, the Wall Street Journal reports that non-financial U.S. companies are sitting on $1.9 trillion in cash, not investing it in productive projects at a time when our economy could use a boost. Imagine if Apple, Google, Microsoft and many other companies paid, for the first time, or raised their dividends and together poured $200 billion into the hands of shareholders. That would increase consumer demand when it is needed. Instead management seems content to sit on the inert cash in excess of what is prudently needed.

Top management, having turned the wide-open 'business judgment' rule into an anti-shareholder forcefield, has to realize that this trove of money is not their money, it is our - the owner - shareholders' money!

Ralph Nader's Update #1 to Upset Cisco Shareholders - The Nader Page

As if companies need nader, of all people in the US, to tell them how to run their companies. :rolleyes: He hasn't even operated a lemonade stand, and if he did, it probably would go bankrupt. :lol:

The reason companies are sitting on their money is well known - it's the uncertainty created by obama and his claque of leftwing economists and other statists. From huge corporations to mom and pop stores, they have no idea what crackpot leftwing idea will be foisted on them next, so they are using prudent caution. Leftwingers want companies to bail them out of the consequences of their failed porkulus and other mismanagement of the country, but it's not going to happen.

The trend of companies holding more cash is not new. Between 1980 and 2006, the average cash-to-assets ratio for U.S. industrial firms more than doubled, according to research by finance professors.

Companies pile up cash but remain hesitant to add jobs

It has nothing to do with Obama...

But thanks for playing.
 
On a broader note, the Wall Street Journal reports that non-financial U.S. companies are sitting on $1.9 trillion in cash, not investing it in productive projects at a time when our economy could use a boost. Imagine if Apple, Google, Microsoft and many other companies paid, for the first time, or raised their dividends and together poured $200 billion into the hands of shareholders. That would increase consumer demand when it is needed. Instead management seems content to sit on the inert cash in excess of what is prudently needed.

Top management, having turned the wide-open 'business judgment' rule into an anti-shareholder forcefield, has to realize that this trove of money is not their money, it is our - the owner - shareholders' money!

Ralph Nader's Update #1 to Upset Cisco Shareholders - The Nader Page

As if companies need nader, of all people in the US, to tell them how to run their companies. :rolleyes: He hasn't even operated a lemonade stand, and if he did, it probably would go bankrupt. :lol:

The reason companies are sitting on their money is well known - it's the uncertainty created by obama and his claque of leftwing economists and other statists. From huge corporations to mom and pop stores, they have no idea what crackpot leftwing idea will be foisted on them next, so they are using prudent caution. Leftwingers want companies to bail them out of the consequences of their failed porkulus and other mismanagement of the country, but it's not going to happen.

That's bullshit. They have learned to overwork their employees, scale back on benefits, use part timers as full time. There are your job creators.......You idiot.
 
A friend of mine works in managed funds. He says most US firms are very cash rich will little or no debt. however, individuals and the govt and sinking in debt...

And that's the way they want it.

Drown the government in debt by lowering taxes for the rich and soak the increasingly impoverished and debt ridden populace so the top 1% can live in splendor.

It's a great plan, and it has been flawlessly executed by the Republicans.
 
If consumers are afraid to spend, explain the record profits and record liquid assets of business?

Bailouts, unnecessary tax breaks, being on Obama's staff, QE, exporting due to a low dollar, and what not.

Why would they have to spend? Edwards was right, we are two Americas.
 
There sitting on it, Because the economic Nit wit in the WH, and Democrats in Congress have them scared out of their Minds. Who the fuck are you to expect them to invest it out of some feeling of Patriotic Duty. Their Duty is to protect the Interests of their stock holders, and the Economic Climate right now is telling them the best way to do that is to hold on to cash, and not expand or take risks in all this uncertainty.

That's completely false.

We are no longer a cyclical industrial nation, where recessions mean you get laid off at the factory when things slow down, and called back when things pick up.

There are no factories. The labor intensive heart of America's past industial sector is gone. There are no jobs to get called back to. You free marketeers wanted everything made overseas for 50 cents an hour,

you got it. Be happy.
 
The aren't paying their shareholders because of "uncertainty?"

:lol::lol::lol::lol:

The aren't paying their shareholders because they are keeping that money for themselves.


Whooosh..........:lol:


Most stock ownership is owned by who?

Obama's buddy, Bernanke, helped out the stock market with Quantitative easing, which benefited whom?

The rich are getting richer while most Americans stagnant and struggle and fucking liberals call this a victory. What the fucked happened to real liberals?

Well, we still have Bernie Sanders.

...from the socialist state of Vermont,

with its 5.4% unemployment, but remember,

its Texas that's the economic miracle. :lol::lol::lol::lol:
 
If you walk into the da board ub diwektahhhhz meeting at any of the companies the OP commented on you'd swear you were in the IsNtReally parliament !
 
And that's the way they want it.

Drown the government in debt by lowering taxes for the rich and soak the increasingly impoverished and debt ridden populace so the top 1% can live in splendor.

It's a great plan, and it has been flawlessly executed by the Republicans.


Ya read post like this ,and ya gotta wonder how people could be so brain washed and still find their way to a key board.

Yep its a master plan,working great??!!!
 
Replace "interesting" with "poignant" and then you might make a point.

However, lets address the reason why business aren't hiring: Uncertainty. Obama has managed to make this one of the most uncertain economic climates known to man. Consumers are afraid to spend and businesses are afraid to hire, even though recovery begun two years ago.

The aren't paying their shareholders because of "uncertainty?"

:lol::lol::lol::lol:

The aren't paying their shareholders because they are keeping that money for themselves.



yeah....ok s0n........

Thankfully, guys who think like you arent in charge of other peoples money.:lol:
 
And that's the way they want it.

Drown the government in debt by lowering taxes for the rich and soak the increasingly impoverished and debt ridden populace so the top 1% can live in splendor.

It's a great plan, and it has been flawlessly executed by the Republicans.


Ya read post like this ,and ya gotta wonder how people could be so brain washed and still find their way to a key board.

Yep its a master plan,working great??!!!



assessment fAiL...................

s0n.........the party you are beholden to owns the shit economy. This is a politics forum. Accordingly, the brain washed are winning..........indeed, its an awesome time on these forums to be a conservative and watch the 21%ers crash and burn. And it'll be even more of a hoot after next November s0n.


so much winning............
 
Corporations sit on their cash IN PART because as long as they do their stockholders can continue to grow wealthier without having to pay taxes on that growing wealth.

The ONLY reason for a corporation to invest in new production is if they sense a growing market for their new goods.

Clearly in this economy, one where the vast majority of people are hurting, investing in new production is going to be rather limited.
 
On a broader note, the Wall Street Journal reports that non-financial U.S. companies are sitting on $1.9 trillion in cash, not investing it in productive projects at a time when our economy could use a boost. Imagine if Apple, Google, Microsoft and many other companies paid, for the first time, or raised their dividends and together poured $200 billion into the hands of shareholders. That would increase consumer demand when it is needed. Instead management seems content to sit on the inert cash in excess of what is prudently needed.

Top management, having turned the wide-open 'business judgment' rule into an anti-shareholder forcefield, has to realize that this trove of money is not their money, it is our - the owner - shareholders' money!

Ralph Nader's Update #1 to Upset Cisco Shareholders - The Nader Page



They have determined that it is a better business decision to not risk that money by investing it.

They collectively made this determination at about the same time. That time seems to have been about August of 2008. Let's see...

What happened in the fall of 2008 that might have affected the thinking of every single business owner in the USA at exactly the same time and in exactly the same way?

What has happened since that time that might change their minds and make them think that investing their money would be the wise business decision to make?

Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

If only there was a talented and visionary leader in the White House that realized this and made some plans, opened some lines of communication, spoke to some decision makers or tried to learn of techniques to change it.

"Hope and Change" is the slogan. "Dispare and Complacency" is the policy.
 
On a broader note, the Wall Street Journal reports that non-financial U.S. companies are sitting on $1.9 trillion in cash, not investing it in productive projects at a time when our economy could use a boost. Imagine if Apple, Google, Microsoft and many other companies paid, for the first time, or raised their dividends and together poured $200 billion into the hands of shareholders. That would increase consumer demand when it is needed. Instead management seems content to sit on the inert cash in excess of what is prudently needed.

Top management, having turned the wide-open 'business judgment' rule into an anti-shareholder forcefield, has to realize that this trove of money is not their money, it is our - the owner - shareholders' money!

Ralph Nader's Update #1 to Upset Cisco Shareholders - The Nader Page

The only companies that have cash to "sit on" are the ones who ignore the advice of leftwing morons like Nader.
 
Replace "interesting" with "poignant" and then you might make a point.

However, lets address the reason why business aren't hiring: Uncertainty. Obama has managed to make this one of the most uncertain economic climates known to man. Consumers are afraid to spend and businesses are afraid to hire, even though recovery begun two years ago.

The aren't paying their shareholders because of "uncertainty?"

:lol::lol::lol::lol:

The aren't paying their shareholders because they are keeping that money for themselves.


Whooosh..........:lol:


Most stock ownership is owned by who?

Obama's buddy, Bernanke, helped out the stock market with Quantitative easing, which benefited whom?

The rich are getting richer while most Americans stagnant and struggle and fucking liberals call this a victory. What the fucked happened to real liberals?[/QUOTE]

Sacrificed for the sake of 'winning'.
 
Banks and corporations usually have nothing to gain by sitting on money. They make money by making loans, and making investment in new production and business. But whilke we have leftwing control of a large part of government, and an amateur loose-cannon president, it's simply too risky to take chances. That's what it gets down to.
 
The aren't paying their shareholders because they are keeping that money for themselves.

most tech companies have had a policy of accumulating cash while maintaining little/no dividends since the mid-80, has nothing to do with Presidents or some odd conspiracy as you seem to be implying
 
Banks and corporations usually have nothing to gain by sitting on money. They make money by making loans, and making investment in new production and business. But whilke we have leftwing control of a large part of government, and an amateur loose-cannon president, it's simply too risky to take chances. That's what it gets down to.

Oh bullshit. They've duped the people into being a slave labor middle class. They don't have to hire.
 
This is how corporations squeeze and assert their power over the American people and their government. They are going to choke us until we vote in who they want, and they will let us know who that is, because now they can spend unlimited funds on campagins.
 

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