Reborn American Tyrant

"Filson, I'm curious why that stubborn old man doesn't go short Mickey Online." Looking at the report in his hand, William White looked odd. Or maybe a little indignant, too.

If you're investing in a stock, you need to fully understand its operations. Well, shorting a stock requires even more than that. At the very least, capital adequacy considerations are indispensable.

William White can't figure out that NBC Online is valued at less than $150 billion, while Mickey Mouse Online is very close. From the number of registrations to the number of paying subscribers, I should say so, i.e. the number of paying subscribers is slightly weaker, and as for the rest, NBC Online is clearly superior across the board.

But, why don't you asshole go short Mickey Mouse Online?

"Ahem, boss, there are two main reasons. The number of dial-up subscribers is counted as paid subscribers as well. If you count email and instant messaging alone, they are less than the number of paid subscribers."

"Erm, and that's how it's counted?" William White was a little startled, the cost of dial-up Internet access is only twenty US dollars a month, not to mention, the profit that can be attributed to Mickey Online is actually very limited.

"Yes, in most people's eyes, the cost of dial-up Internet access, belongs to see and feel, although many competitors have appeared, but, a few million user base, even our think tank, is very optimistic about their development.

Another factor, the negotiations for the acquisition of Time Warner, there was a breakthrough. With such a big uncertainty, Julian Robertson wouldn't dare, one bad move and the old man would lose his bottoms."

"A takeover of Time Warner? Philson, that's more like a merger or a consolidation, I should say. It looks like Time Warner is used to playing with mergers, hehe, it's just that with two companies with such huge differences, how are they going to integrate management.

Just as well, and we'll see."

William White certainly knows that there are those old money families behind this merger. Only, what makes you think that one plus one can be greater than two. Most likely, it is equal to two.

Mergers and acquisitions of this sort are not news in Mickey Mouse. To be blunt, if there were no more mergers and acquisitions, what are you talking about overcapitalization. Success stories aside, if we're talking about failures, there's no doubt that the Mickey Mouse Online and Time Warner merger counts as an unprecedented disaster.

In fact, William White's think-tank can't figure out the boss's brain. Isn't it an immutable truth to be bigger and stronger, but why don't you do it?

If it had been before Mickey Mouse Online came out of the woodwork, you could have said that it would be easy to attract an antitrust investigation by the Justice Department. But, now that you have an extra big head, you're worried about nothing.

"Filson, so, the merger is just a plank, right, the purpose of your visit today?"

"Ahem, boss, the Federal Trade Commission, they want ......."

"No see, just send a random manager. These damned saccades, since they believe that the market has the ability to self-regulate, how do they need to worry about trusts now.

Hey, hey, a merger of the two companies would be a company valued at close to $300 billion. Geez, those old uns, they should be in tears when they look at their vault, right?

Alas, there was a time when a $50 billion dollar company could be called great. Now, well, you may need to add a zero to the back of this one."

Filson laughed bitterly at the end of the century, a year for the traditional dirtbags. It was considered a disastrous year. Not to mention the heavy industries like iron and steel and chemicals, they basically lost blood.

Gold, oil, minerals, normally, these things are used to fight inflation. Naturally, it was completely wooden and useful.

"Ignore it, Boss, that seems to be the attitude. They just sent a marketing manager, though he also expressed concern, more of a mockery of the committee."

"Shit, he's not that bad, is he? So, William White doesn't care about the Mickey Mouse Online merger?"

"Yes, boss, no downer."

"Andy, what did the think tank say, any disagreement with the new guys this time around?

Ugh, am I getting old, all this time, those bastards like to come and dig at our Dharma. There was a time when we actually lost the advantage of talent." Well, the old guy was overthinking it. All the top talent in the securities industry had mentorship, and he, William White, could dig up a few. Don't tell me that it's much worse than the smaller brokerage firms that are PK with Damo.

"Ahem, BOSS, there are indeed differences. However, they can't seem to come up with any data.

So, they have their reservations."

"Uh, that's fine?"

"Ahem, boss, I just went back to communicating. One of the guys, only after I cornered him, said.

If this merger was detrimental to NBC Online, William White was afraid that he would have already done it. However, all the data shows that the merger of Mickey Mouse Online and Time Warner can dramatically improve their competitiveness.

So, it's a paradox."

"Well, I see what it means, and that's an attitude, so let's take another look at it. One thing must be certain, William White is a careful man, and would never ignore a real threat to his position if it were."

The old man didn't know for sure, even if William White himself wasn't quite sure. At the very least, there was no way for him to be sure of the short-term fluctuations in the stock price.

It can't be helped that in today's world, it's hard to tell how other things have changed, but at the very least, the IT industry has changed beyond recognition. There may be a lot of reasons why another time and place, Mickey's Online, failed, but the Federal Trade Commission stirring up the pot was definitely a very important factor as well.

What is the Internet about?

Fast, and if you can't do that, everything else is pretty much bullshit. Or if you've been copied or merged, if you can't rise to the top in a very short period of time, don't say anything.

As for the Board of Trade?

This is the most old-fashioned bunch of old guys, and you'd be lying if you expected them to be efficient.

Over a hundred billion dollars in mergers and acquisitions, and there's no way that William White, even with a dismissive attitude, is going to make it easy for you with these old guys.

And then again, what about the European Commission?

I don't believe these guys would dare to go bare-chested if you dared to fire the first shot. Anyway, when the time comes, just fine a few hundred million, and then drag it out for a year and a half, huh, don't believe you have any temper.

Ahem, that, is there any way to do it?

Of course there is, since it's a stronghold of conservative forces. So it's a no brainer as to what people should be lobbying for.

What? It's open fire robbery. How is that possible, I thought it was the Lighthouse State, not the皿. You can't even do a fair deal, and still pull so much has no, this is not too shameless.

That's right, it's shameless. Since you can have such a great benefit, you still have to face why make.

Look at the later so-called high-tech enterprises, huge to the sensational Google, unbridled everywhere to acquire the must die, there is the rotten apple to collect tolls. There is a count one, there is no monopoly.

Naturally, anti-monopoly is more of a joke to them. At most, they'll pay a little protection fee, and that's all there is to it.