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<\/p>\nI was right about Apple. It’s flying today.<\/p>\n
Much of the rest of the market is weak and getting weaker as talk of higher interest rates spooks it.<\/p>\n
Apple lesson and today’s pullback: Use dips to buy your favorite stocks.<\/p>\n
Time to short IBM and Microsoft:<\/p>\n
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I want one. A flying car.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n To watch it fly, click here<\/strong><\/a>. No price set, yet. Figure $250,000, or so. WiFi is good. But wired is better. <\/strong>Measured yesterday. WiFi, 12 feet from Netgear router:<\/p>\n Wired directly to Netgear router: This stuff is magic.<\/strong><\/span> Works on carpets, clothes. You name it.<\/p>\n I really love this monitor:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n 1920 x 1080 pixels. 21.5 inches. Only $130. I used to pay $600+ for smaller 19″ monitors. This one is crystal clear and pleasing to my ancient eyes. Click here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Recommended weekend reading:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n + Buffett’s 2014 letter to shareholders.<\/strong> Click here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0+ How We Learned to Kill<\/strong> by Timothy Kudo<\/p>\n THE voice on the other end of the radio said: “There are two people digging by the side of the road. Can we shoot them?”<\/p>\n It was the middle of the night during my first week in Afghanistan in 2010, on the northern edge of American operations in Helmand Province, and they were directing the question to me. Were the men in their sights irrigating their farmland or planting a roadside bomb? The Marines reported seeing them digging and what appeared to be packages in their possession. Farmers in the valley work from sunrise to sundown, and seeing anyone out after dark was largely unheard-of.<\/p>\n My initial reaction was to ask the question to someone higher up the chain of command. I looked around our combat operations center for someone more senior and all I saw were young Marines looking back at me to see what I would do.<\/p>\n I wanted confirmation from a higher authority to do the abhorrent, something I’d spent my entire life believing was evil. With no higher power around, I realized it was my role as an officer to provide that validation to the Marine on the other end who would pull the trigger.<\/p>\n To read the entire piece, click here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n + Government Is Not the Enemy,<\/strong> written by a Republican.<\/p>\n DURING the Obama presidency, the national debt has nearly doubled, federal spending as a percentage of the gross domestic product reached a post-World War II record, and the federal government extended its reach in health care, higher education, corporate governance, the energy sector and much else.<\/p>\n President Obama inherited a financial crisis that his defenders insist required an active government response, but as Rahm Emanuel admitted during the transition, Obama would use the crisis to advance his progressive agenda. Republicans have been rightly alarmed, but their alarm has sometimes given way to a careless assault on the whole of government. \u201cWe need to shut the damn thing down,\u201d Senator Rand Paul said several weeks ago. Some Republicans have done literally that.<\/p>\n Too often, Republicans express a purely negative vision of government. This is both politically perilous and intellectually inadequate. Republicans oppose the liberal vision of the role of the state because they support a different, conservative vision. They need to articulate that vision, since many presidential voters will be reluctant to give their trust to leaders who have nothing but contempt for the government they wish to run.<\/p>\n To better understand how the conservative approach to government can succeed, consider several significant conservative public policy achievements, which bettered millions of lives. …<\/p>\n To read the entire piece, click here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n + How men can succeed in the boardroom and in the bedroom.<\/strong> (Great headline).<\/p>\n IT’S easy to see how women benefit from equality – more leadership positions, better pay at work and more support at home. Men may fear that as women do better, they will do worse. But the surprising truth is that equality is good for men, too.<\/p>\n If men want to make their work teams successful, one of the best steps they can take is to bring on more women. This fall, the Internet sensation Alibaba went public after achieving years of extraordinary growth as China’s largest e-commerce company. The founder, Jack Ma, explained that “one of the secret sauces for Alibaba’s success is that we have a lot of women.” Women hold 47 percent of all jobs at Alibaba and 33 percent of senior positions.<\/p>\n Research backs him up. Studies reveal that women bring new knowledge, skills and networks to the table, take fewer unnecessary risks, and are more inclined to contribute in ways that make their teams and organizations better. Successful venture-backed start-ups have more than double the median proportion of female executives of failed ones. And an analysis of the 1,500 Standard & Poor’s companies over 15 years demonstrated that, when firms pursued innovation, the more women they had in top management, the more market value they generated.![\"MSFTShort\"](\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/MSFTShort.jpg\")
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