Thread: Trump says SoftBank will invest $50 billion in the US, aiming to create 50,000 jobs

Everyone, listen up!! This company is not building its own manufacturing operations here. It is a capital investment fund to underwrite our entrepreneurs, start-ups, new ideas of Americans, who can't get their project funded and into production. It's focus is on high-tech innovations. So Americans out there with a new idea in their garage can contact this fund, present their proposal, and if they meet the criteria and conditions can raise the capital needed to start their business and get their product into production. Our banks can't or won't fund most of these under federal lending guidelines, that's why Trump wants to revise or repeal Dodd-Frank. US based investor firms prefer to buy existing companies, rather than take the risk on start-ups, turn them around to make them more profitable and that's why they do. That's what Mitt Romney's Bain Capital did.

Capital for new ventures just doesn't exist in the United States any more unless they're part of major companies. And I'm sure some these projects will be ideas of major companies, major companies won't turn down available capital to activate a project they've got on the shelves.

No one should worry about whether some or part of the ownership of the entity is foreign. We have an international stock market now so foreigners own interests in all of our companies already.

I was upset about the Anheuser-Busch sale to the Belgians because it was a hostile take-over. As a result, I haven't bought or drank an Anheuser-Busch product since.

Something needs to be done about these hostile takeovers of family built companies. It's just not right, not right at all for the Busch family to lose their family business to a foreign unwanted buyout. The Belgians threatened to go to court and sue them to enforce the law. Why would we have a law like that to begin with? That sucker needs to be repealed.

I appreciate the additional knowledge and information Judy. I recognize there are foreign interests in many American companies, too.

SoftBank is a corporate group comprising the pure holding company SoftBank Group Corp. and 739 subsidiaries (as of March 31, 2016).

SoftBank Group Corp.
(a pure holding company)

Major Subsidiaries

SoftBank Corp.

Voting rights: 99.99%Sprint Corporation

Voting rights: 83.4%Yahoo Japan Corporation
Voting rights: 43.0%


Brightstar Global Group Inc.

Voting rights: 95.5%ARM Holdings plc
Voting rights: 100%*1


Major Equity Method Associates

Alibaba Group Holding Limited
Voting rights: 30.25%*2

• Group Companies
• Segments

[Notes]

• *1ARM Holdings plc became a subsidiary of the Company on September 5, 2016.
• *2As of June 30, 2016.
• *The shares of voting rights in the above subsidiaries and associates are current as of March 31, 2016 unless specifically stated otherwise.

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http://www.softbank.jp/en/corp/irinfo/about/outline/

You're most welcome, GeorgiaPeach!!

Maybe this will trigger some US capital funds to step up to the plate, put at least $50 billion of capital out there for our small manufacturers to expand their operations. It's very hard for our small manufacturers to get loans and capital on terms that work for them in this present lending environment. Maybe that Rich Cat from Omaha would match the Japanese and raise $50 billion for our small manufacturers to expand. You know the guy ..... Warren Buffet.

Yeah, Warren, what have you done for US lately? Time to show yourself and do some good for our American Workers!!

Originally Posted by Judy

You're most welcome, GeorgiaPeach!!

Maybe this will trigger some US capital funds to step up to the plate, put at least $50 billion of capital out there for our small manufacturers to expand their operations. It's very hard for our small manufacturers to get loans and capital on terms that work for them in this present lending environment. Maybe that Rich Cat from Omaha would match the Japanese and raise $50 billion for our small manufacturers to expand. You know the guy ..... Warren Buffet.

Yeah, Warren, what have you done for US lately? Time to show yourself and do some good for our American Workers!!

I hope you are right, but still it gives me pause. Also, I realize our businesses are not just American businesses any more.

I don't drink beer, but Lone Star Beer - some things are almost sacred.

Have they sold the Alamo yet?

Well, Hillary sold 20% of our Uranium Mines to Russia, so I'm sure the Alamo is not far behind at some point in the future when the Democrats get back in office, and we know they will be some day probably in 2032 or 2036.

Depends on how soon we pass the FairTax. The sooner we pass it, the longer we can keep them out of the White House.

German owned T-Mobile, Japan owned Sprint close to agreeing on deal terms