OK so we did the celebrity death pool for 2012 as If I recall, not 1 of them died. OK 1 month left yet ...

So I'd like to see a corpotation death pool ... cos its less creepy and well ... we all love to hate them. Chapter, 7, 11, 13, 21, 308 and 1456243 are all considered dead ...

Some rules - we need 1 per industry - auto, airline, motorcycle, electronics etc ... pick the industry and the company - yea I'm feeling generous.

So I'll start - Auto - No suzuki isn't valid ... so I'll take Mazda. Why - decent product line, but overwhelming debt. Somone gonna gobble it up though.
Bike - Suzuki, victory and Indian (its been rather feebly brought back to life to sell clothing ... but I predict its death anyway. Need I explain why on any of these ...
Airline - who cares.
Electronics - Denon/Onkyo. they are the same company, and I think they are burying their heads in the sand when you call them about an issue ... how the F*(K can a fool sitting at a desk in some corner in CA not know how to google simple sheiete ... and say, nope, we dont have "firmware update for that receiver" cos we dont have a problem. Garbage. Google produces a 750 page thread as the first hit.

Anyway play on ...

Cool.
Buddha.

Electronics-Best Buy. They have lost their mojo

Retail-Sears/k-mart. Where to begin?  Everything is rebadged junk except craftsman.

Mail-USPS will be seriously downsized. $15B loss?

Transportation-Amtrack. Seriously, it's as much as a plane and on ancient infrastructure propped up by the government.

Auto-Mitsubishi. Seriously, what are they still doing?

Airline-Dono that one.

Bike-better not be suzuki.

I know why mitsubitchi is still afloat ... I am buying parts for my wife's car keeping the whole bloody company afloat.
Cool.
Buddha.

Car = Mitsubishi or Suzuki
Air = all airlines are up for grabs
Electronics = Can't "die", but I see restructure for AMD. Lowest stock prices in their history right now, and reached below $2 a share for the first time ever last week.
Chain stores = Sears, radio shack, best buy,
other chains = arbys, been in the red for a decade now, and recently wendys sold them off (wendys was wendys arbys group, they thought they could fix them, nope)
Motorcycle = defiantly Indian, again

Car - Tesla
Air - United
Electronics - Microcenter (Best Buy knockoff with less stuff)
Store - Kmart
Motorcycle - Motus: A cool idea, but you can't sell $40,000 pushrod v4s with no model history when you have to compete with BMW, HD, and all the Jap manufacturers for the sport touring segment.