Slashdot is powered by your submissions, so send in your scoop

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror
×

Comment Re:Google Stock Split 04/14/2014, 2 Classes of Sha (Score 1) 167

Yes, basically if you reinvest all your profit in growing your business you minimise your tax bill which is in some sense beneficial for shareholders. The overseas thing just multiplies the effect slightly. However, at the end of the day the only reason to own part of a company is to receive profits from it and if you're not receiving profits and have no expectation of receiving profits any time soon, you're putting an awful lot of faith in capital growth. This is Warren Buffet's great trick: he buys companies that pay strong dividend streams and reinvests the lot. Berkshire has never paid a dividend (well, once, in 1967).

Comment Re:Not going to be as rosy as the YES! campaign sa (Score 1) 494

Yes, but when you are running countries, you burn through billions pretty quickly.

It is not the Bank's debt; it is the UK government's. You can read the DMO contracts if you like. And the debt does not have a monetary purpose: it is issued to finance government spending.

You're right, sterlingisation can't be blocked, but full-on currency union certainly can. I don't think anyone in the Yes camp gets that no-one in Westminster is interested in entering into a currency union - not with Europe, and not with Scotland either. What's in it for them?

Slashdot Top Deals

"Protozoa are small, and bacteria are small, but viruses are smaller than the both put together."

Working...