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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Fred Fahmy who wrote (73429)	1/13/2000 6:56:00 AM
From: Greg Jung	Respond to of 132070

<Nobody is 'giving' anything away. They are getting stock in exchange for cash. > First they give the stock away, then they buy it back. That money is given away. I think in math it is "transitive" property. A=B B=C therefore, A = C Contrast this with Dell, which buys stock with earnings (not borrowings) and reduces the sharecount when it does. And executing price discounts via options, etc. They only do the give-away to a few select execs. Gotta go.