Subject: Re: Dear Mr Buffett, and your letter next week.
Umm suggested:
Any company where the CEO and BoD does things purely to influence the price of the stock is not a company a person should want to invest in. If the BoD and CEO are willing to influence the price of the stock through a dividend, what other methods are they using to influence the price of the stock that you do not know about?

Not at all sure why everybody is just going along with this.

The only reason a CEO and a BOD should not do something that will raise the price of the stock is if in the longer run it will lower the price of the stock!

<cafe_americain>I am shocked, shocked I tell you, to see that public companies are in the business of raising their stock prices!</cafe_americain>


The General has been shot!,
R:)