RE: AOL CD's

One has to be careful of such statistics.

Last week, one of my stocks went down in price.  I had paid
$12.50/share.... the price had gone up to $20/share over time... and now
it's dropped to something less than $18.  I could argue successfully that
I'd lost $2 for each share that I held when the price dropped.  But in
truth, it's still a gain of just under 50% of the investment.  So it's a
matter of perspective, isn't it?

Some companies budget for $X in sales.... and when they receive $Y in
sales, (where Y < X, ), they say the lost X-Y dollars.  It's all
perspective.

If a company is billions in debt, however, that's a different matter
entirely.  Just ask the creditors; they'll tell you!  :)

Dennis




                                                                                
                                                                     
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Of course this should be moving to the Non-Tech list :-) I don't disagree
with you Ken, but a mere "billions" ? I heard on a business news show this
weekend that Ford had lost 6.4 billion in the last TWO YEARS !

Chuck

Ken wrote:

<Thee question is not their cd's, it should be how a company like Time
Warner Inc, can be so far in the whole (Billions) and still operate...?
 Boggles my mind...>