> You know I can easily give you plenty of counter examples of decisions made for short term gains and stock pumping, right?

nonethewiser made the claim that if quarterly financials are required, then businesses will make short term decisions.

Disproving this only requires me to provide 1 example, although I provided quite a few examples of businesses that provided quarterly financials and still made long term decisions.

I never claimed that quarterly financials prevent short term decisions, so your counterexamples are disproving a claim I did not make.

> All the companies you listed went the "let's cut personnel or bets even if we're making gazzilions to appease the stock market".

It is possible for businesses to change from making long term decisions to short term decisions (and back), and it is also possible that cutting personnel was not done solely to appease the stock market due to fluctuations in demand for labor.