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Greg Bartlett

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  • Wal-Mart’s Split Personality: Evil Genius or Benevolent Benefactor?

    By Greg Bartlett - November 9, 2012 | Tickers: MCD, TGT, WMT | Editor's Choice

    Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) has been a mainstay of American culture since 1962, when Sam Walton first envisioned “a better life for all.” Since then, the company has often found itself in the middle of a culture war, with one side decrying its ruthless business practices and poor treatment of workers, and the other side defending the company’s ability to employ millions of people while offering low-priced consumer goods. It more »

  • What Does America Run on Now?

    By Greg Bartlett - September 6, 2012 | Tickers: DNKN, SBUX | Editor's Choice

    I moved to northern South Carolina in 2005. Over the past seven years, I’ve watched a fascinating, almost Darwinian event take place in that region. That event seems to be over now, although it probably holds important lessons for those of us that are keeping an eye out for the next such event. There were a whole lot of different factors that played critical parts in this drama, and more »

  • Putting Stock in a Piano

    By Greg Bartlett - August 23, 2012 | Tickers: AAPL, LVB | Editor's Choice

    Imagine a company that only makes one product: A huge, heavy musical instrument that takes almost a full year to assemble, and which almost no typical household can afford to buy brand new. The intricate, precision detail on the instrument must be done by hand, raising its price well above that of its competitors. Modern technology has created an electronic version of the instrument which, at a fraction of the more »

  • TeleNav and Apple: It’s Been Real

    By Greg Bartlett - August 10, 2012 | Tickers: AAPL, T, TNAV, TMOAF.PK | Editor's Choice

    Once upon a time, there was a great GPS navigation company that provided great software on all kinds of different platforms. This highly successful company was named TeleNav (NASDAQ: TNAV)—okay, it still is named that—and it was the go-to company for a whole lot of customers who were excited about using their iPhones to find their way wherever they were going. For just ten bucks a month, users more »