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And yet we all recognize the need to invest in professional growth and development.
Just as a doubly monopolistic Microsoft would be reluctant to raise the price of Windows 95 for fear of losing Internet Explorer users, it would be equally reluctant to raise the price of Internet Explorer for fear of losing Windows 95 users (who might not be willing to invest in a computer at all if the price of browsers is too high).
Dunlap, for his efforts in wrecking--that is, restructuring--corporations, is rewarded with huge chunks of options that he immediately exercises so he can pocket the cash, not so he can invest in the future of the company.
But after the requisite barb-trading with the White House, and a much-photographed round of negotiations in which the sanctity of Social Security and the need to invest in our nation's children are duly invoked, it would be a blessing if Congress would quietly pass a continuing resolution keeping spending more or less where it currently is, and then take to the hustings, where each party can blame the other for doing what's best for the country--nothing.
But the Dow took it on the chin, perhaps because (if you're feeling cynical) people who invest in Dow stocks are the only people who still worry about things like rising interest rates or perhaps because (if you're feeling Chicago-school rational) the Dow has more stocks in it that will be hit hard by a cyclical slowdown than does the Nasdaq.