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Old 07-14-2002, 07:08 PM
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Coke will start expensing stock options

Buffet calls it "a classy move". He's right. Coke needs strong PR in the financial community now anyway, and while they'll take a hit, they're going to point to themselves as bastions of integrity.

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Old 07-14-2002, 07:15 PM
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Agreed. And a smart observation about the benefit of getting ahead of the curve on this one.

A word about Bush's alternate proposal, to require stockholders to vote on options plans. Sounds nice, but the board holds proxy power over a majority of the shares in the vast majority of companies. So what is presented as reform is in fact a trojan horse that would perpetuate the existing system.


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Another case of my misreading something.

Thought it said "Coke will start dispensing stock options."

Pictured big red vending machines churning out options.

Well, it could happen.

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