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...every intelligent person in the country to shudder. If the great engineers of the plans to return the economy to health are wrong, the result will be a ship wreck, a catastrophe so large that it cannot be contained, no matter how much money the government is willing to invest...
...while Microsoft may not have been successful in its efforts to diversity, it is right to continue to invest billions of dollars a year to keep trying. If it does not, the company will, over a period of many years, lose its dominance in the software market it created and have nothing to replace it with. It may be a long shot for the company to create the next important consumer electronic device or online search tool, but Microsoft has as good a chance, if not a better one, than any other company in the world at success...
...deter the company one bit. Microsoft repeatedly launches new products and initiatives that fail. And, that is Microsoft's strength. It may be a huge company and in the world of technology it may be an old one, but it proves each year that it is willing to invest incalcuable sums of money to build the next Windows. Not many companies are willing to go up against such long odds over and over again...
That's because miners, farmers and oil drillers, hit by the credit crunch, can't finance investments that would increase their production capacity. Many won't invest today even if they have access to financing because depressed prices make projects uneconomic. Indeed, when prices spiked sharply in 2007-08, it wasn't because the planet was running out of natural resources. The problem was that there hadn't been enough investment in many sectors to produce those resources and bring them to market. The recession is making that situation worse. The amount of investment in the oil sector, for example...
...none of them answers the question of why write a single one. Sure, he has schizophrenia, but that’s simply a fact of his fictional life no matter how much it tugs at my heartstrings. So—what? If I’m going to invest myself in “Lowboy”—or in John Wray, for that matter—I need to know that his story matters not just to his mother and him. I need to know that it matters...