Last year, I got one of those Nielsen diaries to track my household's television viewing, and they had a methodology for tracking Netflix as well as DVR, but only for shows watched on a television. Netflix on a desktop computer or tablet were not tracked...
Both stock buybacks and stock splits have long been considered legitimate tools for a company to use to keep stock value up for shareholders. Now the author wants to outlaw both.
If you actually read the text you pasted in you'd see that he only talks about doing it for 10years... which I guess is his idea for Microsoft to normalise...
I did read the part I quoted. The section that scared me was the idea of outlawing stock splits and buybacks altogether. And the main problem that the author talks about, with M$ inflating the stock price by misrepresenting earnings, is not related to the stock splits and such, which are common for a number of companies with rising stocks.
3) Prohibit Microsoft from buying back its own stock, instituting stock splits or selling put contracts and engaging in other hedging activity for 10 years. These are tricks used to manipulate the stock price and have contributed greatly to building the financial pyramid. It might make sense to outlaw this practice all together.
Both stock buybacks and stock splits have long been considered legitimate tools for a company to use to keep stock value up for shareholders. Now the author wants to outlaw both. When successful stocks don't split, they can become unobtainable to small investors. Witness Berkshire Hathaway - the Class A stocks would require a home mortgage to purchase 1 share. I'm not sure how much of what the author is saying is true and illegal, but his solutions are throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Aramoro
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Last year, I got one of those Nielsen diaries to track my household's television viewing, and they had a methodology for tracking Netflix as well as DVR, but only for shows watched on a television. Netflix on a desktop computer or tablet were not tracked...
7am to 4pm?
So all the middle management will still be able to browse porn on the company high speed connection?
If you actually read the text you pasted in you'd see that he only talks about doing it for 10years... which I guess is his idea for Microsoft to normalise...
I did read the part I quoted. The section that scared me was the idea of outlawing stock splits and buybacks altogether. And the main problem that the author talks about, with M$ inflating the stock price by misrepresenting earnings, is not related to the stock splits and such, which are common for a number of companies with rising stocks.
(Wish I had some Berkshire Hathaway...)
Aramoro
Cthulhu for President,
Why vote for the lesser of two evils?
(This is the bumper sticker on my car)
He changed the policy a while ago. All theaters were allowed to sell on 5/12 at 3pm.