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Pandit also sees a “healthy consolidation within the tech sector,” with investors being “discerning about forward-looking guidance and how much these companies are spending on capex,” even with earnings that have been “pretty spectacular.”

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Pandit also sees a “healthy consolidation within the tech sector,” with investors being “discerning about forward-looking guidance and how much these companies are spending on capex,” even with earnings that have been “pretty spectacular.”

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Instead of finding practical compromises through negotiation, politics became a matter of discerning what Jean-Jacques Rousseau called the general will of the people and then implementing it.

But IPO investors are becoming a bit more discerning.

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But as a former political-military analyst and former senior adviser at the Department of Defense, I find it hard to discern a coherent strategy or objective.

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