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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business

Sure, people print nostalgic books and holiday cards, but that volume pales in comparison to Kodak’s heyday. After all, they have many capabilities that entrants are racing to replicate, such as access to markets, technologies, and healthy balance sheets. Cameras went digital and then disappeared into cellphones.

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Reflections on 2013; What's Important, What's Not? What's Ahead?

MishTalk

Had I suggested in 2007 that the Fed balance sheet expansion of $75 billion a month would have been considered "tightening" people would have thought I was nuts. Assets in exchange-traded products backed by gold fell 33 percent to the lowest since 2009 amid sales by billionaires George Soros and John Paulson." Here we are.