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To: Perspective who wrote (260306)	7/13/2010 5:06:56 AM
From: dealmakr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

"They blindly accept that "share repurchases" are somehow a pleasant distribution of earnings, whereas the majority of share repurchases are actually made by companies to do nothing more than offset the dilution from stock shares and options granted to insiders." Nailed it Looking at many years of SEC filings regarding compensation bears this statement out for many companies. My favorite is Phantom Stock awards Does that mean the stock isn't real or just a figment of someones ghostly imagination, but alas just another way to obscure what the true compensation costs actually are. dealmakr