Here it is! For all those times when you were just itching to know about k and g’s relationship, I have taken the time to provide the formulas and a simple mathematical sample.

* I used excel and Microsoft Equation Editor to do this.

* Starting with some givens, I held either k or g constant and varied the other. By increasing and decreasing the variable values you can see what happens to the difference and hence the value of the stock.

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Now, there are thousands of workers literally hanging out in rooms doing everything from sleeping, doing crossword puzzles, and offering community service and getting full time pay and benefits. This program is costing GM alone more than $400 million a year!

Yet another example of workers’ unions trying to stave off the last of their inefficient existence. Instead of protecting these workers from getting laid off, they only delayed the inevitable. The UAW even today seems to think that it is GM and Ford’s responsibility to give these workers something to do. The NPR report says that, “[u]nion officials say the companies should simply put those drawing checks from the Jobs Bank to work.”

Now that GM and Ford are both in the hot seat with investors and are in trouble waters, it is very likely that something to the tune of, ‘stop wasting $400 million dollars a year on workers we don’t need!’ will be said by the likes of Kirk Kerkorian. If I was one of the largest shareholders in GM or Ford, I would be yelling this at the top of my lungs ever so less eloquently.

NPR Article: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5185887

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