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...price as a form of income. But that’s exactly what some of these shell companies were designed to do. As the report states, the transactions were just “transfers of economic risk from one Enron pocket to another, apparently to create income that would offset [losses] on Enron’s income statement...
...billion in the red for 2004. The Pentagon gets big bucks: a $48 billion increase to fight the war on terrorism, and homeland defense would double to about $38 billion. Bush also wants $675 billion in additional tax cuts over the next ten years. To offset the spending, Bush wants to cut nearly two dozen job training programs. The Justice Department Budget would be cut and the budgets at the Agriculture, Commerce and Interior departments would be frozen. Spending increases in education and environment would be slowed...
Higher labor costs at Haier's Camden plant are partially offset by savings in shipping and logistics charges. Materials costs are similar to those in China. And the plant can deliver a just-in-time shipment to U.S. retailers and distributors...
...than its rivals. That lifted its U.S. market share nearly a point, to 28.1%. Analysts warned the program would result in fewer buyers in 2002. But GM has drawn down its inventories enough that new customers will have to pay top dollar for particular models they want--which could offset incentive costs...
...capital losses. Consider selling the dogs in your portfolio by Dec. 31. You can use capital losses to offset capital gains, plus as much as $3,000 of ordinary income each year. Suggests Barbara Raasch, a partner at Ernst & Young: "If you have $10,000 of capital gains from mutual funds, look in your portfolio for losses of up to $13,000 and get a tax refund, in essence, by recognizing those losses and selling the security by the end of the year...