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...Hold as long as possible. Stock options amount to an interest-free loan to buy stock, with zero downside risk. It doesn't get any better than that. Say you have options with a strike price of $20. The market price is $22. You could exercise to buy at $20 and sell at $22, pocketing $2 before taxes and fees. If you reinvest that $2 in a fund that goes up 10%, you'll make only an additional 20[cents]. But if you hold the option and your company stock goes up 10%, that same $2 more than doubles...
...Chapter Three: First Notes 1958: Following a friend's urging, and ignoring naysayers, Hillegass uses a $4,000 loan to publish his initial batch of Notes. In one year, he sells 58,000 copies...
...phrase, inscrutable as Mars. Hayakawa was the movies' first ambassador from this remote empire. In 1915 he played an Eastern dude in Western garb in Cecil B. DeMille's The Cheat. All slim smiles and secret sneers, he seduces gullible Fannie Ward with a private loan; later he drops his suavity, attacking and then, gosh, branding...
...banking industry, perhaps overconfident because of its eight-year string of record earnings, gave lots of money to companies such as telecom start-ups that, in retrospect, shouldn't have been funded so richly. If you had a business card and were breathing, you could have got a loan. By June 2000, total borrowing by nonfinancial U.S. companies stood at $4.6 trillion, up 60% from five years before. Total household debt surged to $7 trillion, up nearly 50% in that time period...
...fears of loan losses began to mount, banks started to put the squeeze on new lending. Venture capital also dried up. The scarcity of new bank loans and venture capital can be deadly for business. There is no faster way to shut down an economy than by denying it credit...