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“Chrysler is already a Japanese company. Afterall who else but the Japanese would partner first with the Germans (Mercedes-Benz) and then the Italians (Fiat) in what will turn out to be a failed effort for world (economic) domination.”
“Something Ted Stevens is about to find out – Prison is a series of cubes”
- Marc Itzkowitz
“While the Chinese have been credited with saying ‘May you live in interesting times’ I never thought they would be financing them.”
- Marc Itzkowitz
“I’m glad both presidential candidates are for ‘change’ because that’s all that’s left of my investments…change.”
- Marc Itzkowitz
“Markets do, in fact, correct themselves. The problem we have now is that people don’t like the correction.”
- Marc Itzkowitz
“Any bailout should involve the government taking equity in exchange for help. That’s how we do it in Silicon Valley and it works. We give you money, you give us equity. We share the upside and the risk.”
- Marc Itzkowitz
As this bailout will form the largest and most public of public corporations why are they NOT held to the same level of regulation as all other public companies including quarterly reporting requirements, financial GAAP accounting rules and, most importantly, Sarbanes-Oxley? We may disagree about whether there is too much or too little corporate regulation but a least the current regulations should be applied the same way to all public corporations.
- Marc Itzkowitz
