My mind has been racing lately… all kinds of business/finance ideas keep popping into my head. One of these days I’m going to have to take a chance on one of them.

 So here is my thought of the week.

I have Sirius Satellite Radio in my car. I love Sirius, I can’t stand listening to regular radio anymore. Satellite is far superior… well anyway, their main competitor is XM Satellite Radio… Several months back, the two companies filed paperwork to merge together and become one large satellite radio provider. This is amazing stuff, because each company has their own perks. Sirius has Howard Stern and the NFL, XM has Oprah and Major League Baseball, with a merger you would get all of these talents under 1 company. Suddenly the 12.95 a month I spend would be that much more worth it.

Now, the government has really been dragging their feet on this. If the merger is not approved within the next month, it will become the longest merger in the history of mergers.. the government is getting heavily lobbied by the FCC and other terrestrial radio companies saying this merger would make a monopoly… this would not make a monopoly, there are plenty of other choices out there that you don’t have to pay for. This would completely benefit the consumer. Letting all the oil companies become one…that is a monopoly, oh yeah, it took the government less time to approve the major oil companies merger than it has the Sirius/XM merger.

So where is the Business/Financial thought on this? The stock market. Sirius is currently around $3.20/share while XM is around $12.40/share. The thought is that when  the merger is approved (and it will be approved), Sirius stock will take a huge jump… so the point is… buy now, buy cheap and make a few bucks.

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