One cannot build up a significant shareholding and use it to put pressure on boards let alone pursue a hostile takeover.

NEW HAVEN The United States government s takeover of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac constitutes a huge bailout of these institutions creditors, whose losses have ballooned as house prices continue to plummet.

(The Chinese takeovers of South African and Nigerian textile industries are good examples of this strategy.

Unfortunately, as China has already claimed a large share of the world s merchandise exports (10.4 in 2010) and economic stagnation in the West is constraining external demand, this strategy can no longer work.

First, firms with a high CEO pay slice tend to make worse acquisition decisions.

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For example, when a tiny Italian bank received from someone who never traded a large order for shares of US Shoe shortly before the company was acquired by Italian eyewear maker Luxottica, it was not difficult to smell a fish.

Witness the takeover by Lloyds TSB of the troubled HBOS (Halifax Bank of Scotland) in the UK, or post crisis consolidation in the US.

(I was an investor in both of them, so I have been watching these developments with interest, but I have no inside information on either company since the acquisitions.)

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Bank bonds could also be reduced and converted into equity, which would both avert a government takeover of banks and prevent socialization of bank losses from causing a sovereign debt crisis.

In manufacturing and services (particularly software, business processing, etc.), respectively, China and India have made huge strides internationally, and their acquisition of global companies has attracted considerable attention.

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Policymakers in the industrial core looked the other way as rapidly growing East Asian countries acquired Western technologies and industrial capabilities through unorthodox policies such as subsidies, local content requirements, reverse engineering, and currency undervaluation.

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Significant benefits of scale (large power and mechanical systems) result in large colocation facilities, typically 4500 to 9500 square metres (roughly 50,000 to 100,000 square feet).

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Countries with great demographic potential therefore inherently have great Olympic potential.

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