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atleastoptimal

9 months ago

Would it be even theoretically possible for a disruptive startup to enter the aircraft manufacturing industry in the US or is Boeing basically just a guaranteed monopoly forever until Airbus and some Chinese firm take over the market?

Eddy_Viscosity2

9 months ago

> Boeing basically just a guaranteed monopoly

This.

It would be great if Boeing was dissolved and shareholders wiped out. The company is sold off to a new company that can attempt to rebuild it again with the very hard learned lesson that quality and engineering matter and that MBAs ruin everything and make you bankrupt if you give them too much power.

kasey_junk

9 months ago

Dennis Muilenburg has no MBA, he has 2 aerospace degrees. Calhoun has an accounting degree but not an MBA.

zeusk

9 months ago

The decline didn’t start with them. Just look at Intel and GE as well.

kasey_junk

9 months ago

Philip Condit had a phd in engineering.

Harry Stonecipher had a physics degree.

James Mcnerney was the only ceo with an MBA, are we attributing all Boeings problem to him?

basementcat

9 months ago

Are employees of companies who float debt on the bond market prohibited from trading their company's bonds in the same way they may be restricted from trading their company’s stock?

JumpCrisscross

9 months ago

> Are employees of companies who float debt on the bond market prohibited from trading their company's bonds in the same way they may be restricted from trading their company’s stock?

Yes. Bonds, like stocks, are classic ‘33 Act securities [1].

[1] https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/COMPS-1884/pdf/COMPS-188...