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key point:

NASA and BOEING disagreed on whether it was safe for Starliner to depart to Earth with astronauts.....

I think it might be time to short Boeing stock....

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I think it might be time for the gov't to nationalize the company

Yes, let's make them even less efficient.

That's a 20th century solution.

The right thing to do now is to shutter the company and make all it's patents and designs public domain

I’m sure the Russians and Chinese would love that.

Likely China already has them.

Better ones. This is Boeing we are talking about here

Did anyone explain to Boeing management that two astronauts dying a fiery death would be a far bigger hit to the company's stock and reputation than just writing this capsule off?

Where was that stated? In the press conference they said Boeing deferred to NASA to make the decision because they had a better perspective on the entire landscape of the problem.

Same as shorting the dollar: it will fall, but you don't know when

I want to call my bank and take Boeing out of the composition of my personalized synthetic index fond. Sadly, nobody offers that.

You can just buy all the stocks of the S&P 500 minus Boeing.

Yeah but that's a lot of individual purchases I have to maintain and regularly rebalance. The fees alone would destroy it.

I want "buy all S&P stocks minus Boeing" to be as easy and cheap as "buy Boeing".

FWIW InteractiveBrokers charges per share, not per transaction. You could theoretically automate rebalancing.

I know it's overall pretty daft, but I've also had the 'personal ETF' idea.

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