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...cotton growers are correct in saying they are not alone in the subsidy sweepstakes. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, rich nations spend more than $280 billion a year on agricultural "producer support." The U.S. is a piker compared with the European Union, which, when noncash payments and other aid are added in, spends more than three times as much coddling its farmers. World Bank chief economist Nicholas Stern estimates that a European cow receives $2.50 a day in subsidies, while 75% of Africans live on less than...
...Morningstar and author of The Five Rules for Successful Stock Investing. He encourages investors to measure the trend of net income against cash flow from operations. "If net income keeps rising over time but cash flow is stagnant or declining, then the company is getting that income from noncash sources, and that's low quality," he says. Noncash sources could include the sale of an investment in another company or the divestiture of businesses...
...market will probably begin recovering this year. If your company is positioned for better times and you intend to stick around, get as many stock options as you can. Only if you don't like your or your company's prospects should you ask instead for other kinds of noncash compensation--while you hunt for a new employer...
...agency also zeroed in on stock-option grants, easily the most lucrative part of corporate pay packages. These noncash payments, which reward executives handsomely if stock prices rise, often disguise what top managers actually earn. In the past, firms were not required to report a dollar value on such awards, and there was no uniform measure by which shareholders could calculate their worth. Breeden has proposed that companies disclose more fully and succinctly the present value of these payouts...
...considered poor in 1979 if it had a cash income of $7,386 or less; by 1982 inflation had pushed the poverty line to $9,862. Counting cash income only, there were 26.1 million poor people in 1979 and 34.4 million in 1982, a rise of 31.8%. Adding in noncash benefits reduced those figures to 15.1 million in 1979 and 22.9 million in 1982. Thus, even according to this measure, poverty rose 51.6% during the period...