slimviews: 2015

Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Aapl Meets Hollywood

Apple Meets Hollywood

Personals:

Sexy hi-tech FIRM seeks creative Hollywood Mogul. Objective? Hot Content.

Two years ago I suggested that APPLE and Facebook buy AOL Time Warner CNN. The reason? Content.

$1.5 Billion Dollars + 1.5 Billion Users = Profit$.

It never happened. However, others have been buying up content.

Now, Apple is looking for content (original content) for their devices.

At the same time, another topic near and dear to my heart, is the move to move “In sync” with Cisco. Why? To make Apple products more useful to more people.

You all know the basic paradigm.

An organization grows large.

Economies to scale meet the law of diminishing returns.

Efficiencies decline.

Focus on the quality of some products causes the quality of others to suffer.

There is contention among employees working on different projects.

Profits will attract competitors.

A large number of competitors will nibble at profits.

Unique features of competing products will create pressure to improve your product.

Pressure on employees (and on bosses) will effect morale negatively.

Some competitors will go out of business due to bad products or management.

Other competitors will blend together through M&A creating larger competitors.

Those competitors will benefit from economies to scale as they grow.

There will be market penetration. And innovation. And competition.

They will innovate and or cut prices causing you more pressure.

Big companies will begin to sell off bits of itself to:

Concentrate on our core

Do what we do best

Cut costs

Become more efficient

Focus on R&D

Better serve our valued and appreciated customers.

Now, APPLE is meeting with Cisco. Great Move.

Now, about content….

We've all heard of 30 under 30. Outstanding people under 30 transforming the world.

Now, what about 60 over 60.

Boomers watch television.
Boomers watch commercials.
Boomers have discretionary income.

60 over 60

http://slimviews.blogspot.com/2018/05/60-over-60.html

If you find anything here to be helpful, please don't hesitate to send me a really tricked out Google Pixelbook and to tuck a few dollars into the envelope along with the thank you note. Slim.

Bob Asken
Box 33
Pen Argyl, PA 18072

Warmest regards,

Slim.

Slimfairview@yahoo.com

Tuesday, August 25, 2015

China: QE and Emerging Nations

Is it possible for the "Chinese Central Bank" to launch a bond buying programme for companies listed on the Chinese exchanges to enable them to start a stock buy-back programme to bring up their prices?

This will help small and large investors

recoup their losses

restore confidence in the economy,

restore confidence in the markets and

Restore confidence in the Government

This will refocus the Chinese Economy on:

Capital Investment

Economic Development &

Growth

And will:

Help to rebuild the infrastructure

Increase employment

Increase the consumer class

Increase the investor class &

Reposition China in the Global Market

The Next Challenge is Here

Looking at the change in the global landscape requires comment. I have included my article The Next Challenge is Here in this article.

At the end, I've included links to related articles.

First: This in an Economics Lesson. Focus on the Economics ONLY!

The haves are increasing arithmetically. The have-nots are increasing geometrically.

The real challenge is not the difference in the number of dollars between the haves and the have-nots.

The real challenge is the difference between the number of people between the haves and the have-nots.

This is not a sustainable model. Period!

What Politicians discuss is only what Western Nations can wrap their brains around.

Politicians say Mexicans take jobs Americans don't want.

Politicians say people in the Middle East are escaping war, genocide, and starvation.

Politicians say that migration in parts of Asia is the results of ethnic groups escaping ethnic based violence.

And of course, the scourge of the Earth, human traffickers.

Now, Remember when I said the real challenge is the difference in the number of people between the haves and the have-nots.

To grasp the concept, we will reference a few principles of physics to establish the metaphor.

We are witnessing an incontrovertible law of physics.

1. People are moving from a greater concentration to a lesser concentration. The high-density impact on emerging nations. Populations are increasing--land mass is not.

2. Money. Money in the industrialised nations will reach a saturation point if it has not done so already. At this point, it will be necessary to move money from industrialised nations to emerging nations.

This was one of the proponents in my article Greek Proposal. The article is located here along with Dear. Mr. Varoufakis, and Antigone Defeats Merkel. To understand Europe, one must read Antigone Defeats Merkel and, by extension, Antigone. To understand Merkel and Germany, one must read The Anatomy of Human. Destructiveness. by Erich Fromm.

FOUR STRATEGIES (The First Three are Wrong)

     1. Protect your stuff from people who don’t have stuff.

     2. Share your stuff with people who don’t have stuff.

     3. Share other people’s stuff with people who don’t have stuff.

     4. Help People Who Don’t Have Stuff to Get Their Own Stuff.

While history is rife with disasters that were caused by ignoring the challenge, this time may be different.

Not because I say so; but rather because 5 Billion “have nots” say so.

This time, the world cannot ignore the message.

Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. Santayana.

“Those who never learned history are doomed—Period! Slim Fairview.

Solving the Emerging World Crisis

Forming an E 20

Emerging Nations Economic Union

Third World First. Okay?

Micro-Finance: $10. to the Road to Prosperity

G - 20 Summit! E - 20 Invited?

And President Obama said...

Our Middle East Muddling

Warmest regards,

Slim

slimfairview@yahoo.com

Copyright © 2015 Bob Asken

All rights reserved

Monday, June 22, 2015

Merkel and Charybdis

Odysseus, King of Ithaca, would know what to do.

Every Greek man, woman, and child; every European man, woman, and child, has a right and the need to have his or her leaders call for and succeed in Chancellor Merkel stepping down. Now.

The Analysis is Simple

Have we followed Merkel's lead? Yes.

Have things gotten better? No.

Have things gotten worse? Yes.

Conclusion? Do not follow Merkel's lead.

This is not politics. This is not economics. This is common knowledge and common sense!

I have been calling for Merkel to step down since last year.

European Leaders who follow Merkel are by definition, not leaders.

European Leaders who follow Merkel are by definition followers.

As for Merkel, if you can't manage, you can't lead. Merkel has failed to manage the crisis.

The Chancellor has proven willing to discuss any idea or plan that will impede or prevent any solution to the crisis being implemented.

You cannot cut wages, fire people, raise taxes, and call it a disaster plan--disaster plans are intended to prevent disasters, not cause them. A one-pronged approach is not a solution--it is a weapon. The very approach is designed to decrease the GDP.

I also warned that the Firewall around Greece would not help Greece's neighbor--Spain. This is proving to be true. In Spain, the most popular Tweet is "Stop Merkel."

The following are fairly comprehensive.

EuoBondage and Leadership.

http://slimviews.blogspot.com/2012/06/eurobondage-leadership.html

Merkel's Last Stand

http://slimviews.blogspot.com/2011/12/merkels-last-stand.html

The EuroCrats Trojan Plan--Destroy Greece

http://slimviews.blogspot.com/2011/09/eurocrats-trojan-plan.html

Too Greek to Fail

http://slimviews.blogspot.com/2012/01/too-greek-to-fail.html

Firewall or Farce?

http://sidestreetjournal.blogspot.com/2012/02/firewall-or-farce.html

Now is the time for European Leaders to lead.

Sincerely,

Slim

slimfairview@yahoo.com

Monday, June 8, 2015

GreekEnomics

Today, President Obama, addressing the press at the G-7 meeting, invoked the mantra I’ve propounded for almost five years. Capital Investment.

How long have the EuroCrats been attempting to solve the Greek Economic Crisis?

Too Long. The same applies to the EuroCrisis.

By now we should be able to invoke Slim Fairview’s Empirical Method of Analysis.

Have we tried austerity?

Yes.

Have things gotten better?

No.

Have things gotten worse?

Yes.

Conclusion?

Don’t do that.

The first rule of holes: When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.

Reform is the smallest part of the solution to the Greek Economic Crisis. We need, as I’ve said repeatedly, Capital Investment + Economic Development + Growth.

ONE PROPOSAL:

What is one thing Greece has been known for? Shipping. Did anyone say Onassis?

If the EuroCrats don’t embrace this idea, the Chinese will. Case in point. When I heard that Air Travel will double in the next 20 years, I posed the question, does that mean we will need to double the number of airports, or double the number of planes? What happened? Boeing increased the size of the planes.

China is building a Canal in Nicaragua. Why? To accommodate the Super Ships. Why? To ship from Western Africa, through the Nicaragua canal to China and the rest of Asia.

Remember what I said in my article “Energy Independence? (Then What?)” I said, when we no longer need oil from Saudi Arabia, then Saudi Arabia will need to find a new customer. (China) If China is the new customer, China is also the new friend. And oil can move on supertankers through the Nicaragua canal to China and the rest of Asia.

It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of shipping and, by extension, the importance of ships. Ship building in Greece, with Chinese Capital Investment, can meet that demand. This is not strategic planning. This is marketing.

Marketing: Find a need and fill it.

The EuroUnion has a narrow window of opportunity. The EuroCrats must embrace Capital Investment and Economic Development as crucial to solving the Greek economic crisis. In addition, the rest of the world must work with China to complete the building of the Nicaragua Canal. This is to benefit the Global Economy.