slowjoe

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   by slowjoe 13y ago

   Preferred stock is actually a form of debt. It gets paid after the bond-holders but before the shareholders. It almost never carries voting rights.
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   by slowjoe 13y ago

   The reason for not paying a dividend is that cash distributed that way is taxed more highly than cash distributed in a share buy-back. I agree with you that if no dividend is payed and shares will not be bought-back, the company is effectiv
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   by slowjoe 13y ago

   +1 to the "high course join, low course completion" crowd. One thing that I did at work was establish a betting pool with two other co-workers on the Coursera C++ course that finished in December - completers would collect from no
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   538 hiring geek-journalist?(fivethirtyeight.com)

   1 points by slowjoe 13y ago|0 comments