Tuesday, January 03, 2012
Hey, Thanks For Pointing That Out, Captain Obvious!
It's A Pity They're Not All Old Enough To Vote
I Thought It Was Muslims Who Hate Us For Our Freedoms?
Monday, January 02, 2012
Scary Thought
Y'know, Crack Dealers Are More Ethical
Attention: Tourists To NYC
There Had To Be A Better Way To Handle This
Not Sure I Understand This
The World's Richest Thief
“As far as I’m concerned, a board that keeps loading up its chief executive with more stock and options each year is, from a shareholder perspective, basically committing theft,” says Albert Meyer, a former accounting professor who runs a money-management firm called Bastiat Capital. It’s all legal, of course, but to Meyer you can tell if an enterprise exists for the benefit of shareholders or insiders by the number of options it awards its top executives. Options aren’t free; they dilute the worth of everyone’s shares. And the practice hurts more than the privileged few. Anyone who owns an index fund of the country’s 500 largest companies owns shares in McKesson, a Fortune 500 company. “It’s nothing short of a massive wealth transfer from the retirement accounts of middle-class Americans to a privileged few,” hidden in the guise of stock-option programs like McKesson’s, Meyer argues.
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This Is Rather Distubring
A Sad Crack To Fall Through
Friday, December 30, 2011
My Photo Of The Year
There were quite a few candidates, but this one has stuck out in my mind as the most memorable one to take, and among the best composed I had for the year