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Mitt Romney vouched for low price on Staples stock that traded 10 times higher a year later
Boston Globe ^ | 10/25/2012 6:23 PM | Callum Borchers

Posted on 10/25/2012 7:31:05 PM PDT by Red Steel

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Is this it? Waaaaaah and yawn Boston Globe, Gloria Allred, and Stemberg.
1 posted on 10/25/2012 7:31:06 PM PDT by Red Steel
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Uhhhh..............and?????????????? Idiots huh?

Helping keep mankind warm for 65 years.


2 posted on 10/25/2012 7:34:57 PM PDT by rktman
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It may be nothing, but just wait.... it’ll be the lead in story for most of the MSM tomorrow including “the view”....


3 posted on 10/25/2012 7:35:22 PM PDT by Sleeping Freeper
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OMG! Romney made a poor stock pick!


4 posted on 10/25/2012 7:35:42 PM PDT by outofstyle (Down All the Days)
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So let me get this straight. If she has held her 500,000 shares another year she would have had 10 times as much money. WTF is she complaining about? Under stating the value of the stock would reduce Tom Stemberg's wealth, but would have also made the amount of stock Mrs. Stemberg received appear as a lower value in the settlement.

She chose poorly and that is the breaks of stock trading. The reality is that she blew 80% of her settlement on dragging him back into court and the ensuing defamation lawsuit brought against her by Tom Stemberg and his new wife.

5 posted on 10/25/2012 7:38:04 PM PDT by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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Well, obviously Romney was not wearing his Genie hat. You know, the one that confirmed that staples stock would rise in a year, so don’t sell you dumb t*at!


6 posted on 10/25/2012 7:38:33 PM PDT by KittenClaws (You may have to fight a battle more than once in order to win it." - Margaret Thatcher)
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To: Red Steel

Stupid.


8 posted on 10/25/2012 7:40:49 PM PDT by comebacknewt (Newt (sigh) what could have been . . .)
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Anything to take the focus off the Libya scandal.


9 posted on 10/25/2012 7:41:15 PM PDT by dragonblustar (Allah Ain't So Akbar!)
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Maybe she should have invested in cattle futures.


10 posted on 10/25/2012 7:41:42 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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Who did she sell the stock to?

That’s the guy that made out.


11 posted on 10/25/2012 7:42:14 PM PDT by Venturer
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I could be wrong, but would any kind of revelation to price, or advance knowledge of an increase in it’s valuation, be akin to insider trading??? I think Romney would be in deeper s**t if he actually did if he actually did make any kind of claim of an increase in value.


12 posted on 10/25/2012 7:42:56 PM PDT by ObozoMustGo2012
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Wasn’t the IPO price of Facebook’s stock raised several times before it even hit the first day of sale? And where is it today?


13 posted on 10/25/2012 7:46:08 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama likes to claim credit for getting Osama. Why hasn't he tried Khalid Sheikh Mohammed yet?)
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To: Red Steel

look a squirrel


14 posted on 10/25/2012 7:47:03 PM PDT by italianquaker (The 47 pct need to pay their fair share)
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To: outofstyle

she should have bought cattle futures


15 posted on 10/25/2012 7:47:13 PM PDT by bigbob
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She walked away with 5 million. She had nothing to do with Staples value then, or it’s later success. Typical.
But revenge is coming. Woman fill law schools, medical schools, and top corporate positions.
More often than ever, they marry blue collar guys. When men start getting payouts just for sharing a bed with someone who earns exponentially more than them,,watch for a sudden change in the laws.


16 posted on 10/25/2012 7:48:01 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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Pre-IPO stock is given a nominal value, which Mitt gave. I worked for a company that gave me pre-IPO options at a dollar a share.

This will be spun big time as an example of the War On Women and how Romney conspired to defraud this poor waif of millions.

Facts won’t matter in a coordinated media rollout by the Rats.


17 posted on 10/25/2012 7:48:47 PM PDT by DBrow
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How is it anyone else’s fault if she sold the stock early instead of holding onto it until the value went up?


18 posted on 10/25/2012 7:49:15 PM PDT by JediJones (Vote NO on Proposition Zero! Tuesday, November 6th!)
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To: outofstyle
She sold in 1988, the company went public in 1989 and Romney testified in 1991. So his statement was not a stock pick.

She decided to sell a large block of a highly illiquid stock just months after the 1987 crash, rather than waiting until it was public, liquidly traded and in the midst of an eventual market recovery.

He was right - at that time, in those circumstances, she likely couldn't have done much better.

19 posted on 10/25/2012 7:49:40 PM PDT by wideawake
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This is an interesting contrast to an earlier story that showed the exact opposite. Don’t know if it is just spin or if the FR thread was being typically positive.


20 posted on 10/25/2012 7:50:53 PM PDT by paul544
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