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Even the most welcome new directors are wary of the liabilities they may face under corporate-governance reforms. "The real problem with the old system is that it was relatively easy to pass the buck," says Krishna Palepu, a professor at Harvard Business School who has studied the functioning of audit committees. "Now that's much more difficult." Hall says he would decline to serve as any board's financial expert (a new rule requires audit committees to disclose whether they have one), despite his years in investment banking and corporate finance. "That's an invitation to a lawsuit...
...offer double-tax relief to a broader swath of Americans? The Bush Administration makes the argument that tax relief for investment income is better for the economy than relief for paycheck income. A White House spokeswoman told TIME, "Taxes on capital are very inefficient. So your bang for your buck in terms of lost revenue compared to the amount of jobs and growth that would be created by removing the tax on capital is very high...
...Reason: you can't fake cash the way you can an earnings report. If companies are encouraged to pay dividends, they will have to manage their companies to deliver real earnings. That will make stocks more attractive and help the market. "Frankly, it's the biggest bang for the buck," says Glen Hubbard, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. To discourage finagling, only companies that pay federal taxes can issue tax-free dividends. In lieu of cash, growth companies like Microsoft that don't pay dividends can issue "deemed" dividends, which represent reinvested profits...
...Sell a buck. Save a buck. Repeat. It's that cycle of high-powered logistics engineering and nickel-squeezing huckstering that remains retailing's most potent weapon. UBS's Kristiansen sees no reason why Wal-Mart, which has trounced the Dow over the past five years, will not sustain 15% earnings growth...