Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "CNBC" channel.

  1. Translation: we're doing pretty well because we gave good service at reasonable prices. Now we're getting to be one of the big fellas, so we can send all our planes back to Boeing -- get them refitted: narrower seats, less leg-room, bigger bonuses for the bosses.
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  2. I remember when Doctor Pepper first arrived in Japan, early or mid '74 I think it was. I was operating ten or eleven coin laundries around Tokyo at the time and I had soft-drink machines in most of them. Doctor Pepper went on the air, into the machines, and out into the world. For two weeks it outsold everything else combined. Then it dropped dead. They tried it. The didn't like it. Thunkk!
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  3. To call this guy a halfwit would be an insult to the good and useful number 0.5. To call him a crook would be repeating old news.
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  4. Coming soon from CNBC: "Yukon's sugar industry stuggles"!
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  5. I stand corrected: mostly AirBus, some Embraer. The point remains the same, they specifically, and the industry as a whole, have reduced legroom and the general level of amenity a good deal over the years.
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  6.  @rollling7523  ...in Australia.
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  7.  @petercdowney  Nope. Iceland is the green one. Greenland is the one covered in a thousand feet of ice. Also, steel-workers make iron and ironworkers erect steel.
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  8.  @OhhDaarBenJePerry  That doesn't seem to be supported by the evidence: they have grown into the big leagues exactly by not skimping on the seats, etc. They haven't been in the business of "keeping up." They have been in the business of catching up and surpassing. The point which you are missing, in one message after another, is the irony of the fact that they are, on succeeding, destroying exactly the foundation of their success to now.
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  9. The guys know that the Great Wall of China was to keep the Mongols out, right? Did they maybe miss the bit about how the Mongols have ruled China for most of the last thousand years?
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  10. Got news for you, Del: the world is round. It's a globe. It's all connected.
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  11. 1.) Japanese traffic drives on the left, so steering wheels are on the right-hand side of each car. No American cars come with right-hand-drive steering wheels. 2.) "When car-makers get into trouble, the Japanese hire engineers, the Americans hire lawyers." The American family sedan of today is the Honda-McLaren of 1975. Soeichiro Honda, like Henry Ford, was a race-car nut, and Honda Motor has been 20% British from back in the 50 cc. motorbike days; Honda went into partnership with the most advanced racing car developers to make today's high tech cars. 3.) American cars have dominated one Japanese niche. Japanese gangsters and sumo champions overwhelmingly drive Lincolns. Pyrrhic victory: not many people want to imitate gangsters.
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  12. And when Apple collapses? There's an answer to this: everything else will bump or swell or skidaddle over a bit to make up the space. But it's going to be interesting to watch.
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  13.  @chech5774  How is that not fair? Since when did blacks and Hispanics stop being part of the American system? What you're saying is exactly the same thing as the most extreme critics of American education say: your system doesn't serve all its students.
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  14. Awww. I weep for poor wikkle Donnie Fats. But not very much.
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  15. Mopar, Your real problem is, when there's a real challenge to be faced the Japanese call an engineer, the American guy calls a lawyer.
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  16.  @OhhDaarBenJePerry  But they have, according to the video, spent money to get closer, i.e. less. Keep your eye on the main point, OK?
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  17.  @maxcoughlin5561  Wanna buy a bridge? You can probably put toll booths on both the Manattan and the Brooklyn side, get 'em coming and going.
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  18.  @KirkBuchanan  You don't seem to be paying attention. Netflix and Blockbuster are in entirely different businesses. Blockbuster rented physical goods, CDs. They weren't put out of business by Netflix; they died when their technology became obsolete.
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  19. "In the belly of Jesus, go." - Cromwell.
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  20. Camo? Right: stuff that's intended to make fake indistinguishable from fake fake.
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  21. Warning to investors: if all these weapons get used, there isn't going to be any business replacing them.
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  22. For the rich.
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  23. Nice thing about Cheetos and suchlike snacks: they weigh next to nothing. Expect Tesla to conquer the feather transportation industry. A solid eight, even eleven, trucks!
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  24. Toledo, Michael Parker obviously knows that. Poor whiny Stephen G doesn't.
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  25. Naked Dave, It's a Japanese company, and still largely run by the very competent Toyoda, with a D, family. On the other hand, they learned a good deal of their business from two Americans, Henry Ford and most importantly W. Edwards Deming. (Google him. Everybody!) America gets it right sometimes. America forgot Deming from maybe 1945 to 1990, a crucial generation, and is only getting back in the game now. If it wasn't for all the immigrant brains, American industry would be totally, like really totally, down the drain instead of just badly wounded. Things are not as bad now as they were in the double-dip recession of 1991, and the rationality of the Obama years has helped America a lot. What happens next with this ignorant burbling dumbnutz in the White House, nobody knows.
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  26. THX, The China market is the only thing keeping the Buick brand alive -- and since the Cadillac is pretty much a Buick with a different badge, you can count on a big percentage of them -- parts certainly, whole cars perhaps -- coming in from China soon. And there is nothing, nothing, Hair Furor can do about it.
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  27. "In the US" at last! But a Chinese company after all...
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  28. Shall we break it to these folks, that all that rain started out as sea water just a little while back?
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  29. Their market didn't shrunk, it shrank.
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  30. NASCAR may take more guts. Golf more brains -- unless you take rich guys' and Presidents' mulligans, that is.
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  31. Kudlow, Lighthizer, and Ross. These guys failed the tryouts to succeed the Three Stooges, so now they run the economy. And Janet Yellen, the last grown-up seen in any responsible position in Washington,* has left the building... * Secretary of Defense Mattis a possible exception.
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  32. More people "postpone my trip to the dealership" and "families are buying more cars each on the average" are two claims that contradict each other. Fire the writer. Hire some copy editors.
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  33.  @pilerks1  I am not the David Lloyd-Jones who ws among AA's founders, but it was always pleasant to have their people look at my ticket and sorta strighten up their spines in salute.
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  34.  @petercdowney  Peter, In that case, I don't understand what you mean by "their respective names." Nor do I understand why you're agreeing with Jacob now while you seemed to be correcting him back then.
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  35. One-bomb coffins. No military value. Mere diplomatic symbols, useful for pushing around the board to show unsubtle messages.
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  36.  @filthysoap  Perfectly true. The Great Wall as we know it today was built by Deng Xiao Ping in 1987 for the tourist industry. In fact, it is named after the Great Wall Hilton Hotel, which it is located next to. Next question.
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  37. TrueBag, You gottit. I've known member of his family, visited one of his companies in Chicago, and my experience backs you 100%+++. 'Course the Trump economy is only starting to exist about now. Up to now it's still the Yellen-Obama proposition still coasting forward.
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  38. Wall to wall nonsense. Just don't step in the benghazi: some people just don't clean up after their dogs.
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  39. kazzicup a.) The election.is over. b.) Hillary is not a crook. c.) Anybody who believes what Trump tells them is a fool: he has spent his whole life betraying his wives, his suppliers, his banks, his backers and his investors. Right now he's busy betraying the people who voted for him. Bet on it. -dlj.
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  40. XYZ, The election's over now -- and you're still on display as delusional across the board. Wince Foster? Hey, have you found te Big Foot yet? -dlj/
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  41. How do we get from the pickup truck at 4:02 (with a WWI tank photo to illustrate "WWII") to the 1963 Thunderbird without any mention of the 1958~60 Edsel, "A monarch sucking a lemon"? Could MSNBC please post a note saying who was fired for this rather stunning bit of omission?
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  42. Attractive message -- until you consider that a ver-ree high percentage of all that Janet Yellen funnymoney ended up in the portfolios of the .01%. OK, it was necessary to do something, given that McConnell's was obstructing -- or is "subverting" the better word? -- any recovery from the GOP disaster of 2008. But surely any kind of "easing" or other neo-Keynesian managerial program has to have some solid undergrowth of egalitarian theory to it if it is to be taken seriously?
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  43.  @SporkPlays212  It may very well soldier on for centuries. The stock price, however, will return to Earth. Maybe they'll change the name from Apple to Blueberry.
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  44. Wow! People never knew about chips. Thank you for enlightening us, AMD. We would never have known it without you. (CNBC is Nutsy the Squirrel stupid to tell us AMD became a second source for Intel "by the 1980s." That was its main role from the very beginning.)
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  45. CNBC, Solar City wasn't "thinly stretched." It was stretched thin. It's called a predicate adjective. Look it up, half-wits.
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  46. Of course steel is a tiny little bit of the whole world economy. And bourbon? How much Bourbon is there in Kentucky, Wilbur? How does the Midwest feel about Brazilian soybeans?
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  47. Step on the gas an turn left. For the Confederates out there, "left" the foot with the hay on it, "right" is straw.
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  48. So embarrassing for poor Donnie Fats with Jack Ma, meeting a genuine billionaire and having to smile...
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  49. Down 1.9%? That's Horrible! Horriboriborrible! At that rate they'll be down 62% in fifty years flat! And in fifty years? Why, no way anybody's going to think of anything else to sell in that time, is there? Hey, do people get paid to make videos like this? Can I get in on the gravy train?
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  50. Bitfinex was not a "virtual" exchange. It was a genuine exchange online. Doesn't anybody here even speak English?
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