Tim Beyers of The Motley Fool writes Friday about how some tech industry CEOs have been blaming TV business journalists for their bad rap.
I think we are actually talking ourselves into this [economic] slowdown. Over the last three or four months, I felt pretty good about business until I got on the treadmill — and then I quit early because of the pessimism that exists in the market.
“So let me get this straight. Squawk Box is responsible for the so-called tech meltdown? Chambers can’t be serious, right?
“Wrong. Just ask Intel CEO Paul Otellini. Quoting from his remarks in the chipmaker’s fourth-quarter conference call:
I have the same caution that I think everybody in America who watches CNBC has today. You hear all of the pundits saying that the world is going to go to a trash basket and you worry. It may be a self-fulfilling prophecy.””
Read more here. Beyers doesn’t believe the reasoning.
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