president barack obama vowed to eliminate the danger of financial institutions that are too big to fail, and the nation s largest banks are bigger than they were before the financial meltdown. thank god for those bailouts. then there was this classic. if you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. if you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan, period. no one will take it away, no matter what. laura: we all saw what happened and we all felt it. more doctors retired, higher out-of-pocket costs, higher deductibles and many americans received policy cancellation notices. then there was a time obama promised america shovel-ready jobs lobbying for that $830 billion stimulus bill and a few years later, he said this. shovel ready was not as shovel ready as we expected. laura: i love how they are
eliminate the danger of financial institutions that are too big to fail, and the nation s largest banks are bigger than they were before the financial meltdown. thank god for those bailouts. then, there was this classic. if you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor,f period. if you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan, period. no one will take it away, no matter what. laura: we all saw what, happened and we all felt it. more doctors retired, higher out-of-pocket costs, higher deductibles and many americans received policy cancellation notices. then, there was a time obama promised america shovel-ready jobs when he was lobbying for that $830 billion stimulus bill and a few years later, he said this. shovel ready was not asnd shovel ready as we expected. laura: i love how they are laughing, what s a few billion among friends? big deal. from the outset, president obama
andy kessler writes the inside view column for the wall street journal and he s founder of the silicon valley hedge fund velocity capital. andy, great to see you. thanks for coming in. what do you make of the eu s fine this week and the charges against google? well, the fine itself is irrelevant. you look at the numbers, 830 billion dollars market cap, 100 billion in cash, 13 billion in profits last year. that s not the problem. it is the concept of they are annoyed about 11 apps they installed including maps and search and assistance trying to say that s anticompetitive. but google, android, it is a platform. it is a platform for others to compete on. lyft versus uber and spotify versus pandora. it is a wonderful competitive environment and they compete against apple. bureaucrats are bureaucrats so they had to do something. paul: they say look, when they go to a handset maker and they say if you want to use android, you have to put these our apps, google maps, youtube,
operating system. andy kessler writes the inside view column for the wall street journal and he s founder of the silicon valley hedge fund velocity capital. andy, great to see you. thanks for coming in. what do you make of the eu s fine this week and the charges against google? well, the fine itself is irrelevant. you look at the numbers, 830 billion dollars market cap, 100 billion in cash, 13 billion in profits last year. that s not the problem. it is the concept of they are annoyed about 11 apps they installed including maps and search and assistance trying to say that s anticompetitive. but google, android, it is a platform. it is a platform for others to compete on. lyft versus uber and spotify versus pandora. it is a wonderful competitive environment and they compete against apple. bureaucrats are bureaucrats so they had to do something. paul: they say look, when they go to a handset maker and they say if you want to use android, you have to put these our apps, google maps,
matching texans and mcnair s donation and new england patriots posting the team owner and the team matching donations to the red cross, the red cross has set up a special page on their website if you would like to donate money. talk about the importance of making sure they are vetted, that is one of them. getting a new iphone. apple rolling out its new iphone, with an expected price tag of $1000, apple the first trillion dollar company. analysts say apple could hit the landmark number by this time next year. apple stock closed near its all-time high giving it a market cap of $830 billion, analysts see apple start growing 20% over the next 12 to 18 months. supposedly going to have a larger screen and facial