{"id":7,"date":"2008-02-29T13:12:49","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T12:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/0050c0a.netsolhost.com\/thelastword\/archives\/7"},"modified":"2008-02-29T13:12:49","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T12:12:49","slug":"time-for-galts-gulch-european-vultures-feast-on-msft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/0050c0a.netsolhost.com\/thelastword\/archives\/7","title":{"rendered":"Time for Galt&#8217;s Gulch? European Vultures Feast on MSFT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Europe is hungry, hungry for cold hard cash.\u00a0 MSFT has just the dope.\u00a0 No, they haven&#8217;t committed a crime.\u00a0 Is anyone forced to buy MSFT?\u00a0 Have they hurt the consumer?\u00a0 The last time I looked, prices for new PC&#8217;s had cratered to all time lows.\u00a0 I walked into PC world to pick up a portable hard drive the other night and there were systems marked down in boxes stacked three deep by the till for \u00a3230.<\/p>\n<p>The cash generated by MSFT is being used for Africa.\u00a0 This\u00c2\u00a0charity bandwagon was\u00a0clearly resented by the\u00a0snubbed noses of the European Commission who said,\u00a0&#8221; We have poor\u00a0fellows too.&#8221;\u00a0Aid not trade\u00a0has backfired.\u00a0 Too much aid and not enough trade in Africa and now even the <em>nouveau riche<\/em> want aid.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Where are those cigarettes with dollar signs?\u00a0 Where is John Galt?\u00a0 Certainly not in the bleeding EC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe is hungry, hungry for cold hard cash.\u00a0 MSFT has just the dope.\u00a0 No, they haven&#8217;t committed a crime.\u00a0 Is anyone forced to buy MSFT?\u00a0 Have they hurt the consumer?\u00a0 The last time I looked, prices for new PC&#8217;s had cratered to all time lows.\u00a0 I walked into PC world to pick up a portable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hot-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/0050c0a.netsolhost.com\/thelastword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/0050c0a.netsolhost.com\/thelastword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/0050c0a.netsolhost.com\/thelastword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/0050c0a.netsolhost.com\/thelastword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/0050c0a.netsolhost.com\/thelastword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/0050c0a.netsolhost.com\/thelastword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/0050c0a.netsolhost.com\/thelastword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/0050c0a.netsolhost.com\/thelastword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/0050c0a.netsolhost.com\/thelastword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}