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Just as rape and other felonies committed by star athletes at the NCAA powerhouses are tolerated with wearying predictability, today's high-school administrator will allow the barely controllable gangs from the gridiron free rein to commit verbal and physical aggro upon the castes below.
Today's announcement that, as of Monday, Union Carbide, Sears, Chevron, and Goodyear will be replaced by Home Depot, SBC Communications, Microsoft, and Intel (the latter two being the first Nasdaq stocks ever to appear in the Dow) is fine testimony to what all of us already knew: that the U.S. economy has changed dramatically in the last two decades, and that former industrial powerhouses have been superseded by the avatars of the New Economy.
Even as some of the tech stalwarts like Cisco and Microsoft (both of which I own) were in free-fall, Net powerhouses like Amazon were up strong on the day.
The leveraged buyouts, mergers, and corporate restructuring of the 1980s left many of the historic retail powerhouses in a vulnerable condition, with a number of the strongest traditional retailers—Macy’s, Saks, Sears—in an extremely weakened state.
But at least when it came to the powerhouses of this stock market, the big-cap tech names, no one even blinked.