Max Keiser and the ‘Ultimate Weapon’
boycott | 23.06.2007 10:07 | Analysis | Globalisation
Cheuvreux’s recent report, “Consumer Power: Pricing Power versus Consumer Power,” provides fascinating insight into the power of the boycott while expanding on Max Keiser’s Boycott Vulnerability Ratio (BVR) by giving a bond like rating to a company’s vulnerability to a boycott.
“US financial activists have recently introduced astute boycott strategies. Created by Max Keiser, the BVR attempts to identify listed companies that are financially the most sensitive to a boycott. We have refined this concept in our scoring model.”
- “Consumer Power,” Cheuvreux June 2007
The boycott is ‘the ultimate weapon,’ according to the report.
What is a boycott? A boycott is “a free, voluntary and ideological refusal on a systematic basis to consume a company’s products or services (or that of a country) for the purpose of obliging it to meet a demand.” As Max Keiser has repeatedly stated, “a boycott is the no cost weapon of choice for activists.”
And while 91% of consumers say they are prepared to boycott the products of a company for poor behaviour, in reality, the ‘ultimate weapon’ is wielded mostly by the educated and the middle to upper income brackets. According to the report, less than 15% of people with no university degree have ever boycotted a product. And only 25% of those with income of less than 1500 euros per month have boycotted a product, compared to 46% of those with monthly incomes greater than 3100 euros.
As is reflected in Karmabanque research, Cheuvreux found that consumer goods and retailers were most vulnerable to a boycott, hence the lowest CCC rating. The companies most resistant to a boycott were found to be the banks, AAA rating for them. Banks shouldn’t be too relaxed about this as Cheuvreux’s study also found that resistance to a boycott “is also a good indicator of the threat of possible regulation.”
Max Keiser created Karmabanque in 2002 as a place for activists to monetize their dissent. With Cheuvreux’s report providing another layer of important dissent data, the ultmate boycott weapon just got a market guided missile.
To learn more go to
http://www.maxkeiser.com
To read the boycott section of Cheuvreux Report, see attachment
- “Consumer Power,” Cheuvreux June 2007
The boycott is ‘the ultimate weapon,’ according to the report.
What is a boycott? A boycott is “a free, voluntary and ideological refusal on a systematic basis to consume a company’s products or services (or that of a country) for the purpose of obliging it to meet a demand.” As Max Keiser has repeatedly stated, “a boycott is the no cost weapon of choice for activists.”
And while 91% of consumers say they are prepared to boycott the products of a company for poor behaviour, in reality, the ‘ultimate weapon’ is wielded mostly by the educated and the middle to upper income brackets. According to the report, less than 15% of people with no university degree have ever boycotted a product. And only 25% of those with income of less than 1500 euros per month have boycotted a product, compared to 46% of those with monthly incomes greater than 3100 euros.
As is reflected in Karmabanque research, Cheuvreux found that consumer goods and retailers were most vulnerable to a boycott, hence the lowest CCC rating. The companies most resistant to a boycott were found to be the banks, AAA rating for them. Banks shouldn’t be too relaxed about this as Cheuvreux’s study also found that resistance to a boycott “is also a good indicator of the threat of possible regulation.”
Max Keiser created Karmabanque in 2002 as a place for activists to monetize their dissent. With Cheuvreux’s report providing another layer of important dissent data, the ultmate boycott weapon just got a market guided missile.
To learn more go to
http://www.maxkeiser.com To read the boycott section of Cheuvreux Report, see attachment
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01.07.2007 15:12
For those in London you can listen to the show on good ol Resonancefm 104.4 every saturdays at 7pm, one of the most informative and entertaining shows around.
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Max Keiser removed from wikipedia:
03.07.2007 17:21
Max Keiser removed from wikipedia:
News:Self promoter,hedge fund operator and Wall Street con artist,Max Keiser who uses the world wide internet,Al Jazeera and ireland.indymedia and ny.indymedia,etc., to promote a fraudulent 'naked short selling' claim for worthless fraudulent U.S. penny stocks such as Adnan Kashoggi's GenesisIntermedia,Patrick Byrne's Overstock.com,Rudi Giuliani's ex NYPD Police Chief Bernie Kerrick's Taser stun gun shares and James Dale Davidson's Genemax and Endovasc 'pumps and dumps'(and many more),has had his self serving biography,(that hides more than it reveals), removed from wikipedia.Google 'max keiser al jazeera naked penny stock fraud ryals' if you haven't read my opinion of Max Keiser for promoting a known U.S. penny stock fraud.
Don't be the last to realise this guy is trying to use you to promote a U.S. penny stock fraud of international proportions.Has anyone in Ireland or the UK or Europe heard of the claim' naked short selling' being used to explain the collapse in price of stocks there or elsewhere in Europe ? If so I wish you would contact me.So far to my knowledge this has been a claim specific to worthless fraudulent U.S. penny stocks.Any information you can provide would help my investigation.
You can be assured Mr. Max Keiser would never debate me or answer my questions regarding his fraudulent claim,using Al Jazeera as his mouthpiece,as to which specific stocks he claims to be victims of 'naked shorting' .Who has ever used the term 'naked shorting' or 'naked short selling' outside of U.S. penny stock promoters after promoting and then dumping or selling millions or billions of worthless shares to defrauded investors ! ? And neither Al Jazeera nor Mr.Keiser has ever answered my question regarding the Arabic translation for 'naked shorting' and when it first entered into Arabic stock or 'securities' vocabulary.Figures.They're promoting stock or 'securities' fraud.
Endovasc of Montgomery,Texas and their Houston attorneys Wes Christian and John O'Quinn made the same fraudulent claim.In truth this Stanford University connected penny stock was and still is an illegal 'pump and dump' that the SEC and its lieing Chairman Christopher 'Naked Shorts' Cox protects even though their worthless shares have been traced to LOM of Bermuda and to Bellador Group of Kuala Lumpur and Dubai and appears to have the backing of the CIA !
Sincerely,
Tony Ryals
Tony Ryals
e-mail:
endoscam@lycos.com
Max responds to commnet re: Wiki, KarmaBanque and BVR
05.06.2008 14:38
read the wiki on karmabanque here
read about karmabanque, and larry ribstein's legal opinion here
Max Keiser
e-mail:
maxriot@gmail.com
Homepage:
http://maxkeiser.com