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Companies That Won’t Make It Through 2009 (A wish for the New Year, NYT is #6)
24/7 Wall St. ^ | December 19, 2008 | Douglas A. McIntyre

Posted on 12/23/2008 9:01:53 AM PST by theymakemesick

A lot of fairly well-known public companies either disappeared or went bankrupt this year. Circuit City is on the list. Based on the most recent news GM may get added soon.

24/7 Wall St. looked at some of the largest and most well-known companies, reviewed their SEC filings if they are public, analyst reports, and media observations about their businesses and picked ten that probably won’t be around at the end of next year. That does not mean that their brands will disappear, but these companies will have been dissolved as the world knows them now or working though the court system in the hopes of getting Chapter 11 protection and a chance at survival.

(Excerpt) Read more at 247wallst.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: 2009; msm; nyt; predictions
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To: theymakemesick
My comment was not directed at you or the NY Times in specific. Was directed in general at the fretting people do about the prospects of Company A, B, C, or D going out of business.

While the NY Times going out of business would be an event to relish in many ways, it would be incomplete and disappointing if it did not also cause Pinch to be put in the street, begging for his next meal.

Murdoch purchasing it and purging current management and staff would be a wonderful site to behold.

41 posted on 12/23/2008 10:35:34 AM PST by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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To: Phantom Lord

Don’t own an iPod and never will(though I do own a Creative Zen). I have bought two Apple products in my life and they both sucked. I am too independent to allow Steve Job to determine how I will run my life. I do have 6 disc CD player in the truck and listen to CD’s, but on long drives it is nice to just turn on one of my favorite stations and listen to good music for a couple of hours with no commercials.


42 posted on 12/23/2008 10:43:38 AM PST by redangus
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To: Caipirabob

“Hey! I have an idea: let’s make people pay for radio, and then still subject them to commercials!... “

Yep, the “no commerical” hype is just that, hype. Only the lousy music channels are commercial free. Everything else has loads of commericals and all the same; prescription drugs, penis enlargers scams, hair growth scams, financial scams, and credit counseling scams.

We let our vehicles lapse this year. I won’t be paying for what is nothing but a mix of a few cable TV channels and Internet style porno advertising.


43 posted on 12/23/2008 10:50:24 AM PST by CodeToad
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To: speedracerx
This is so disappointing. They are making some of the best vehicles out there. When all the dust settles, do you think the UAW and its members will every face up to all of this?

Not until it's too late for them, I'd wager. Reminds me of the fable about the goose that laid the golden eggs.

44 posted on 12/23/2008 10:51:52 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Obamanation: an imploding administration headed by a clueless schmuck)
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To: redangus

XM and Sirius will make a killing if the Fairness Doctrine knocks Rush & co. off the air. Might be a good time to pick up some bargains if Sirius is trading at 10 cents a share ...


45 posted on 12/23/2008 10:52:03 AM PST by bassmaner (Hey commies: I am a white male, and I am guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere.)
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To: theymakemesick

The New York Slimes won’t be down for breakfast!! Hooray!!


46 posted on 12/23/2008 10:59:01 AM PST by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: theymakemesick

If News Corp purchase the NY Times, look for a lot of overpaid journwhoralists to be collecting unemployment and for old style (pre-1970) journalists to replace them. Also look to the subsidiaries such as the Boston Globe to simply be shuttered.


47 posted on 12/23/2008 11:01:07 AM PST by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: MIchaelTArchangel
If News Corp purchase the NY Times, look for a lot of overpaid journwhoralists to be collecting unemployment...

I would not lose a minute of sleep if they do, in fact, I would relish it. They have been instrumental in the decay and destruction to date of this country.

48 posted on 12/23/2008 11:13:04 AM PST by theymakemesick (Buraq (buh- rok) Winged creature that carried mohammed on his Night Journey from Mecca to Jerusalem)
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To: shoutingandpointing
Excellent!


" ... They may not be in business but they sure are in my wallet."


They need to be put out of the stealing business ... one way or the other.

49 posted on 12/23/2008 11:56:04 AM PST by G.Mason (Duty, Honor, Country)
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To: redangus
iPod, much like Tivo, has become the generic name for the device.

I have two iPods and love them both. The ability to have tens of thousands of songs at my fingertips, along with thousands of photos and hundreds upon hundreds of hours of podcasts and old time radio shows is something unimaginable just a few years ago, and now, something I wonder what I would do without.

50 posted on 12/23/2008 1:01:45 PM PST by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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To: Non-Sequitur
AIG, huh? Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of people.

Imagine an insurance company with ZERO underwriting standards in any line. Undercut any price offered and, "hey send us the app when you get around to it." Burn in hell, mo' fk's.

51 posted on 12/23/2008 1:07:41 PM PST by j_tull (Jeremiah Wright's prayer has been answered. God has damned America.)
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