Obsolescence Risk

Categories: Insurance

AOL. Yeah, it had the risk. And it became obsolete, no longer useful, no longer a must-have-thing. Scale production facilities of horseshoes? Yeah, also obsolete. Soon, hopefully, treatment for malaria will don that plume as well.

In Street parlance, OR is a common theme when investing in tech companies who look (for the moment, anyway) as a sure thing that'll last forever.

Hi, Nokia. Hi, IBM. Hi, Yahoo. And on and on.

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