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MarketFoolery: 01.25.2012

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🗓️ 25 January 2012

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

President Obama delivers the State of the Union. Apple reports big earnings. And Google announces a change in its privacy policy.

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0:00.0

It's Wednesday, January 25th, and this is Market Fuller.

0:06.0

I'm Chris Helen joining me in studio today from Motley Fool Asset Management, Tim Hanson,

0:10.0

and for Motley Fool Inside Value, Joe Meger.

0:12.0

Gentlemen, good to see.

0:13.7

How do?

0:14.7

Hey. We've got two big stories today.

0:16.3

We've got Apple and Google.

0:17.6

We're going to start with Apple.

0:19.2

Wait, I read the State of the Union for nothing?

0:21.2

We can touch on the State of the Union. No, no, it's fine.

0:23.4

It's fine.

0:24.4

You know, let's spend 60 seconds on the state of the unit.

0:26.8

From an investing standpoint, what was the takeaway as an investor?

0:30.8

Was there something the president said where you thought wow that that might be a better

0:34.3

opportunity in that industry. I guess clean energy maybe I mean clean energy is a really

0:38.8

hard sector to to wrap one's mind around just because it's not really economical or profitable now,

0:45.3

generally speaking.

0:46.3

With natural gas at two bucks in change?

0:48.3

Right, and yet, you know, China has showed if you throw enough subsidies at something,

0:52.4

you can make a big good

0:53.3

business for a while I mean long-term investors maybe like us aren't gonna aren't

0:57.4

gonna play that game but if you know the federal government gets really intrigued

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