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This Week in Intelligent Investing

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Stock Compensation

CNN's John Sutter and Andrew Keen have been recording a documentary about Silicon Valley. This week, they look at the way in which employees are being paid for their work with stock compensation. The company has issued millions of shares over the past few years that were generally issued at 25 or 30 dollars to share. But now it is down 50 % from where you got the shares issued. You're way upside down on this. Why wouldn't it have been better to just pay them with cash?

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