http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/08/and_the_winning.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/08/and_the_winning.html/comment-page-1#comment-3562 Remus Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:15:57 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2006/08/and_the_winning.html#comment-3562 <p>Cynic writes "Yeah, but the GN is the only one that is not around now." Well ..., no. The name is gone but the actual railroad survives as part of BNSF, as does NP - and SP operates as part of UP. So it appears the optimum real-world business plan has somewhat less to do with government aid than with responding to real-world opportunities. </p> Cynic writes “Yeah, but the GN is the only one that is not around now.” Well …, no. The name is gone but the actual railroad survives as part of BNSF, as does NP – and SP operates as part of UP. So it appears the optimum real-world business plan has somewhat less to do with government aid than with responding to real-world opportunities.

]]> http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/08/and_the_winning.html/comment-page-1#comment-3561 Cynic Fri, 18 Aug 2006 23:46:01 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2006/08/and_the_winning.html#comment-3561 <p>Yeah, but the GN is the only one that is not around now. The optimum real-world business plan is to get as much government aid as possible (rent-seeking) so that when you do go BK the gov't will bail you out!</p> Yeah, but the GN is the only one that is not around now. The optimum real-world business plan is to get as much government aid as possible (rent-seeking) so that when you do go BK the gov’t will bail you out!

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