@Carrie D  What a delight you are :). Your math logic is good, but the point is the investor above locked in the P/L when he jumped from one stock to another. Now he/she ended up 'affording" 20 percent less AAPL (8 v 10). Had he/she stayed put with AAPL, he/she would have still held 10 shares. Or, had he/she later stay...more

Yes, but how long till the company throttles our internet data speeds when it finds out people are ignoring their cable programming for online content?

Why not? Let's overcapitalize them, have 'em buy more stuff than they can afford, so prices skyrocket, their currency gains again (on more dollars from Citigroup flowing in); and eventually we drive their economy into a similar spot as the US during crisis. That will teach the ordinary Chinese on the ways of capitalism...more

Unbelievable! What a great artist and entertainer! The world was better because of him.