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If you only have five nights, I would be inclined to spend them all in one place, probably Budapest. Three nights only gets you two days, not really enough for Budapest and barely enough for Krakow if you're going to visit Auschwitz. Taking the night train helps.
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Thank you so much for your comments. I'm taking a night train from Prague to Krakow and have two full days, any recommended places to visit in Krakow. Auschwitz is in my list, preferably like to move around places around there. For the night train, still having doubts for the safety...may I know which train to take, cos I've one pretty bad experience on a night train with no seats.
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For the night train see:
Definitely get a couchette.
The guide books have good lists for Krakow, plus it's a good place for wandering around and chilling out in the beautiful main square. I think the former Jewish quarter has a number of new sights since I was there, plus a bunch of eating and drinking places.
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Krakow is a small centre with a salt mine and concentration camp or two. Budapest is a real city with lots of stuff to do.
So it depends if the concentration camp is the key, for me Budapest would be the better.
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Thanks so much with all the info above.
Have a nice day!
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When are you going to Krakow? Hopefully not during the last week in July, when up to 2 million visitors are expected for Catholic World Youth Day. Auschwitz during this period will be closed to general visitors, except pilgrims attending WYD.
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Salt mines and concentration camps aren't even in Krakow, they are out in the country somewhere, there are other things to see and do in Krakow. I've been there twice and was there probably 3-4 days each time and only spent it in Krakow itself. Krakow isn't exactly a small center and not "a real city", it's over half a million population in Krakow city alone. Budapest is at least twice as big, though. I preferred Krakow but was only in Budapest one day so perhaps I'd feel differently if I were there longer, I just wasn't that crazy about it.
It might have to do with some of my family background, some of which is in Poland, though, and I know some Czech so the language is close. I just liked it a lot.
I think it's really just personal preference, there is no correct answer to this question, so you should view the main attractions of each and go to the one that most draws you.
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I recently spent 4 nights each in both Kraków & Budapest. Budapest has a lot more ground to cover than Kraków. I felt pretty satisfied with what we were able to cover in Kraków in our 4 nights (and we certainly didn't see everything). But 4 nights in Budapest was just an appetizer, there was so much more to see & do that we didn't get to. I could have easily have stayed twice as long & not run out of things to do.
With only 3 nights to spend Kraków would get my vote.
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With the time you have, I, too, would opt for Krakow.
Don't miss the Lady with an Ermine.
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The OP has five nights, not three. The question was how to split them.
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Thanks so much for all the above comments, I'm going in end March and would like to see more of anything that I can with the nights I have. I shall spend two nights in Krakow, one-day walking tour in the main square and etc on the first day I reached early morning. After tour will try the nightlife and the next day maybe make a trip to Auschwitz, perhaps we rent a car to there. Any recommended places to visit on the way to Auschwitz and will make use of our car rent for the day. The next day will have another walking tour to the Jewish quarter. Hope planning is okay..
If time permit, will definitely check out Lady with an Ermine...
Cheers everyone and have a nice day.
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Auschwitz plus Birkenau is really a whole day, especially given the emotional impact. No need to rent a car, there are buses.
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"make a trip to Auschwitz, perhaps we rent a car to there"
I was extremely glad that I took a tour to visit Auschwitz. It can be a very powerful experience; I would not have wanted to try to drive afterwards. I found it very important to have some time to sit, quietly, with my thoughts -- and that was the attitude shared by everyone with whom I shared that tour.
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The free walking tour that begins twice a day in the main square ends at the Wawel Castle. If you take the earlier tour (10am I think?) you can enter the castle after the tour concludes (this is where Lady with an Ermine is). If you take the later afternoon tour the castle will be closing when the tour ends.
I don't know if there is anything worth visiting on the way to Auschwitz. I would rather try to fit in a visit to Nowa Huta. Also, I think that if you want to do Auschwitz without a guide you have to arrive by 10am which wouldn't allow for any stops on the way in that case.
As for dining & nightlife, we enjoyed Kazimierz, there are some great little spots there.
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Not much on the way to Auschwitz, unless Wadowice, the birthplace of Pope John Paul II is of interest to you. You can see the house he was born in (with newly-opened interactive museum) and the church where he was baptised. I thought it was a pleasant small town worth perhaps a few hours.
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European Tour 2009 III - Germany Holland
EUROPEAN TOUR 2009 PART III - Germany, Holland,
Koblenz to Hoek von Holland
June 16 to June 24, 2009
Start 54,095 miles (86,552 km) cumulative:
End 54,467 miles (87,147 km) cumulative
Section 1
Koblenz to Köln
June 16 - 17
The further north along the Rhine you go the flatter and more industrial it gets. This is Germany's main manufacturing region and most populated as well.
The first day's ride out of Koblenz remains fairly pretty. The river is still bordered by low rolling hills with attractive villages on its banks.
By the time you pass Bonn you are now in the middle of the industrial belt. In places the bike route snakes its way right through the middle of major manufacturing complexes. In other places the route itself is in a park or woods, but big factories line the opposite river bank.
But industry isn't the only thing you see. There are still a lot of nice small towns for you to wend your way through. So it isn't just one long urban stretch.
About the only thing that attracted our attention as far as sites goes was the huge cathedral in the city of Köln. Köln was nearly completely wiped out in W.W. II. One of the few original buildings left standing was the cathedral. This was not by accident or divine grace. Bomber pilots used its twin towers as a navigation aid. So fortunately for Köln, their mammoth church still stands.
Built in the French gothic style, the Köln cathedral is one of those buildings that leaves you staring open mouthed. It was actually begun in the 1200s and not finished until the 1800s, some 660 years. Although like so many of the European churches, it probably had an almost organic construction. Additional parts and features are added in styles popular at that time or at the whim of the benefactor. The idea of using a plan from the start just didn't exist. Everything was done solely on the experience of the builders. Naturally, once the building was "completed" they probably had to immediately start the renovation, a process that still continues.
French gothic is easy to distinguish from other forms. It takes the concept of working with stone to new plateaus. The lines of the building are vertical taking your eyes higher and higher. The twin towers are constructed of stone so artfully carved they look almost lacey. Each tower is covered with those typical French gothic style knobs. They look as though someone took a gigantic paring knife to the original cones and cut down in short strokes leaving small stone curlicues behind. In reality, each knob usually is some sort of gargoyle face, each unique.
Inside is where the true purpose of Gothic architecture is seen. This massive building is designed so that its weight is carried by the huge pillars both in the naves and the side walls. This allows for the wall sections between each pillar to be as thin as possible. Or as in this case to not exist at all. Instead stained glass windows are put in place bringing in a colored and filtered version of daylight.
Many of Köln cathedral's stained glass windows are original. They each tell a story from the bible, a teaching tool for a predominantly illiterate populace. These always are the most beautiful. Newer windows, probably replacing those destroyed in the war, tend to have just geometric patterns. We wonder if there are even any craftsmen around who could make a window like the old ones.
Section 2
Köln to Millingen aan de Rijn
June 18 - 20
Dusseldorf was the next and last big city in Germany. It has a long, wide pleasant riverfront walk that made it extremely easy to pass through. One small section, perhaps .5 km, is literally jammed with sidewalk cafes in summer. This is definitely the place for summer meals.
Beyond Dusseldorf we passed through just simple, rather ordinary looking farm towns. There was nothing to entice the tourist, with the possible exception of an odd place called Wunderland in Kalkar.
This has to be the oddest amusement park we've ever seen. They took what appears to be a former nuclear power plant, gutted the interior, and installed rides. There's a hotel housed within the old administration buildings. There's some sort of flying ride installed right within the old reactor tower which has been given an amusing paint job. This is truly one unusual entertainment venue. Just think, you send the kids off for the day and they come back glowing, literally.
Just a couple easy days got us to the Netherlands border town called Millingen aan de Rijn.
We saw another most unusual site along the way. Looking across the fields toward a second road we saw what appeared to be a large group of people gliding along. Upon closer examination we found a strange cycle contraption designed for 6 people. One person in back steered with a car style steering wheel. The remaining 5 people sat in a circle facing each other. They sat up high and each pedaled like crazy to make it move. The whole group of laughing, partying people would glide down the road at a reasonable clip on 4 or 5 fat wheelbarrow wheels. With beers held in the center of the circle it was one odd moving party. We've never seen anything like it before and probably never will again.
Section 3
Millingen aan de Rijn to Hoek von Holland
June 19 - 24
Despite years of no border controls, it's still very easy to distinguish the actual border. Within the town of Millingen aan de Rijn there is a row of houses backed right up to the border. Also, there really is a noticeable difference in the houses. Dutch houses appear to be much smaller. Also they are made almost exclusively from red brick. There's no stucco here. But just like the Germans, the gardens seem to be the homeowner's show piece. They do a wonderful job and obviously have the perfect weather for beautiful flowers.
The other thing we found was that even this very small town had a grocery store that would put most German stores to shame. We have to admit we haven't been to impressed with German stores, especially in the southern regions. They have mostly these discount type stores that are cheap but offer very limited selection. The few real grocery stores they do have are usually very small. Only in the northern regions did we start to feel like we were shopping in real, full size grocery stores.
The Netherlands was a whole different story. Here in this small town was one very nice store with lots of selection. Granted it's not as immense as the French Carrefour and L'Eclercs. But it was certainly very close.
Much of the Netherlands is land that should be under sea water. Some land has been created through the creation of their dikes and canal systems. Some has been reclaimed from rising waters through the same means. No matter what, the Netherlands is a land of water. No matter where you ride you will almost always find yourself following along some creek, canal, or river.
The low lands between the dikes are what they call "polders". In here they have farms, towns, factories. Often along the top of the dikes you'll find the roads, nearly all of which are bicycle routes or paths.
The Netherlands has to be the most bike prolific country we've ever visited. Bikes aboundand there's an entire network of bike routes, paths, and roads to go with it. The scene at any neighborhood train station with hundreds of parked bikes is really remarkable.
Holland is also very famous for its flower fields. In spring there are dafodiles and tulips. Later in summer there are other flowers fields upon fields full of them. Of course on bike traveling through the farms you just have to pass by a few flower fields here and there.
Canals are a major part of Dutch lifestyle. Along the canals you can find a plethora of pleasure boats. Some of these are those live aboard canal boats we saw back in 2006 on the Canal du Midi in France. There are tens of thousands of km of canals and rivers in the flat lands of Europe which you could easily spend a lifetime wandering in a canal boat. And many people do.
Many of these canal boats are old antiques that have been carefully restored to their former glory. They are former cargo craft that have since been replaced with the the ega size cargo barges we see today The owners clean out the former cargo holds and build what must be very comfy living quarters below deck. Certainly with all this new living space the current owners must have far more luxurious accommodations than the original owners.
These old boats are beautiful, charming, quaint, and nostalgic. However, since these are all made of wood planking and since they are all so old, they must surely require constant and expensive upkeep and maintenance. Nice to look at, but we'll stick to the idea of a fiberglass boat.
After a few days hard riding, we arrived at the town of Dordrecht early enough to have a nice look around. Dordrecht is located at the confluence of 2 rivers, one being the Wall (the name for the Rhine in Holland). It was always a major shipping port especially after getting the right to force all craft to store and ship through their city.
Dordrecht is the city where the various kingdoms of Holland came together to sign an agreement to form a nation. So historically it is the place where the Netherlands was born.
The town is quite attractive with numerous bays that look a lot like canals all filled with picturesque canal boats. We arrived with plenty of time left to take the walking tour. We wandered by old houses formerly used by the many traders, a few old churches, up and down the canals, and across a nice old wooden drawbridge.
From Dordrecht we took another of the numerous short ferry rides across the Wall river headed toward one of the most photographed sites in all Holland, the famous grouping of windmills.
Because much of the Netherlands should, by all rights, be under water, a lot of effort and work goes into keeping the country afloat. Before the age of the steam engine, this was done through the use of wind powered water pumps, those famous Holland windmills. Not only did these devices pump water but they cut wood, milled flower, ground artist paint, and did a whole plethora of other everyday chores. At one point the Netherlands had over 10,000 of these devices winding away the days.
Unfortunately with the invention of the steam engine, the windmills very nearly became an extinct contraption on the Dutch landscape. Fortunately, for cultural heritage reasons as well as tourism, the Netherlands government has recognized the value of those few remaining windmills. They currently keep just around 1,000 maintained and in working order. Even some that can still be renovated are being rebuilt back to working condition.
Of course, if you have a working windmill, that means you need someone to actually work it. Running a windmill is a skill that takes time to develop, 3 years in fact. You simply cannot just erect a bunch of sails and let it do its thing. You have to know exactly what sails to erect, how much sail to extend, and which direction to face them depending upon the wind conditions. If you don't do things just right and the windmill takes off, it can literally tear itself apart. On modern windmills this is done by feathering the vanes. Back then it was almost like running a sailing ship a lot of hard work.
As we rode our way across the Netherlands from one side to the other in this flat, flat country, we started coming across more and more of those lovingly restored windmills. Occasionally they were even working, the windmill operator living in the attached house decided to give a show for the day. But, the one place to really see the famous Dutch site is a place called Kinderdjik.
Located just to the east of Rotterdam, Kinderdjik is a place where there are still 18 operable windmills. They line 2 sides of a canal. On one side there are the round stone variety. On the other are square windmills. And just for good measure there are 2 of the original hollow post variety. The hollow post variety had a wooden windmill house mounted on top of a hollowed out post or tree. To change direction of the windmill they had to change the direction of the entire house.
One of the 18 windmills is a visitor center, costing 3.50€ to visit, and is usually up and running most days. The other 17 are put into operation of weekends in July and August, weather permitting. This is the only place where you can go to see this many of a once common site still.
The best way to see the windmills is by bike or foot. Biking was particularly pleasant as we were able to enter the area from the backside rather than the front where the majority of tourists enter. No matter how you enter, there still is plenty of opportunities to get one of those famous Dutch windmill photos.
From Kinderdijk it was just a short ride into and out of the city of Rotterdam. Although Rotterdam has lots of marked cycle routes, it's not quite as bike friendly as the other Holland towns we'd seen. There are just too many people in the central area. We kept having to dismount and walk just to avoid running into pedestrians. Of course it didn't help that some of our route was under construction at the time either.
The Rhine river route ends right at the Rotterdam train station at which point a section of the North Sea route picks up. So at least we did have recommended cycle routes to follow. Otherwise we would probably have taken the train out of the city. The train station is your usual busy and just slightly sketchy area. There were a lot of pan handlers about, some of which smelled suspiciously like weed. Netherlands does have a very tolerant attitude toward pot smoking which they claim keeps the problems with drug crime down. Yet with that statement we've never seen a country where even tourist brochures touting the great things about a place spends so much time talking about bike theft. Evidently the drug addicts will easily steal a bike and sell it on the street for just a few Euros in order to get their next fix. Some 2100 bikes are stolen every day and this is in a country that is smaller than New Hampshire. And they say they aren't having any problems with drug addicts.
We decided that the most prudent action was to just push right on through the city center and make for the suburbs where things appeared to be safer before finding a stop for lunch.
Then we hit the final few miles of the Rhine river bike path headed toward open sea. The river by this point is absolutely huge and boat traffic is at its highest. Rotterdam is one of the world's largest ports and there are even plans to expand it further.
Up in the distance, just before reaching Hoek van Holland and the North Sea we saw the most unusual contraption ahead. It was an enormous white truss structure with a twin structure on the opposite bank. It turns out this contraption is a huge water shield designed to close off this canal during storms. When the seas are too high the empty walls will act like pontoons and the whole structure floats. It is then rotated about an enormous pin on shore, swinging the curved wall across the canal until it meets with the opposite wall which is also swinging over the canal. The walls are then filled with water and the entire structure sinks and sits on the canal bottom for the duration of the high water. Once the high water recedes, the walls are emptied and everything swung back onto shore. It truly is amazing what these Dutch people have gone through in order to keep their land out of the drink.
We finally reached Hoek Van Holland. Our original plans were to spend a couple of nights in the nearby campground and then go visit Delft via train. But we discovered that there really is no secure storage facility at the ferry port. So if we were to leave in a couple of days we'd have to spend an entire day sitting around the terminal.
June 16 Rhine radweg thru Weißenthurm, Andernach, Namedy, Bad Breisig, Remagen, Oberwinter, Unkelbach, Bad Honnef, Königswinter, Bad Godesberg, to Mehelem, 62.4 km
June 17 Rhine radweg thru Bad Godesberg, Bonn, Hersel, Widdig, Wesseling, Sürth, Rodenkirchen to Poll, 42.81 km
June 18 Rhine radweg thru Flittard, Leverkusen, Rhrindorf, Hitdorf, Monheim, Baumberg, Benrath, Holthausen, Volmerswerth, Hamm, Düsseldorf, Niederkassel, Oberlörick, Meerbusch, to Langst-Kierst, 84.64 km
June 19 Rhine radweg thru Nierst, Gellep-Stratum, Linn, Uerdingen, Hochemmerich, Alt-Homberg, Baerl, Orsoy, Eversael, Rheinberg. Hwy B57 to hwy B58 to Wesel, Backroads to camping Grav-Insel 78.72 km
June 20 Rhine radweg thru Beek, Lüttingen, Wardt, Vynen, Niedermörmter, Hönnepel, Grieth, Griethausen, Düffelward, Keeken, Bimmen to Millingen aan de Rijn, approx 46 km
June 21 Bike path 72 to 71 to cross the Rhine, then back roads to Huissen, Rhine bike route thru Huissen, Malburgen, Arnhem, Oosterbeek, Doorwerth, Renkum, Wegeningen, to Rhenen. Bike parh along N225 to Elst, 63.68 km
June 22 Side roads by Eck en Wiel, Maurik to Rijswijk. Rhine bike route thru Zandberg, Buren, Buurmalsen, Geldermalsen, Deil, Beesd, Rumpt, Rhenoy, Asperen, Leerdam, Heuketum, Dalem, to Gornichem. Ferry to Woudrichem, Sleeuwijk, Werkendam, Nieuwendijk. Side roads to camping. 94.4 km
June 24 Back roads to Nieuwendijk. Rhine radweg thru Kopvan 't Land. Main road direct to Dordrecht, 54.67 km
June 25 Bridge to Papendrecht. Rhine radweg thru Oud-Alblas, Alblasserdam, Kinderdijk. Ferry to Krimpen aan de Lek. Bike routes thru Krimpen aan de Ijssel, Gravenland Oost. Rhine radweg to Rotterdam train station. North Sea route to Hoek Van Holland. 67.68 km
June 16: Rheincamping Siebengebirgsblick in Mehlen, (13.50 €/night)
June 17: Campingplatz Stadt Köln, (17.00 €/night)
June 18: Camping Meersbusch in Langst-Kierst, (16.00 €/night)
June 19: Camping Gravel-Insel near Wesel, (9.00 €/night)
June 20: Camping Rijnhof in Millingen aan de Rijn, (13.30 €/night)
June 21: Vakantlepark De Tabaksschuur in Elst, (16.00 €/night)
June 22: Camping De Kurenpolder (17.00 €/night)
June 23: Camping 't Vissertje in Dordrecht (10.95 €/night)
June 24:Ferry to England (141 €)
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The Accidental Heretics Box-set presents Books 1, 2, and 3 plus a novella: The Mad Woman of La Catalane
This box-set includes more than 1300 pages of medieval adventure together with maps, a glossary of Occitan and historical terms, plus a preview of Song of Valeros, Book 4 in the series.
The Accidental Heretics series explores a crucial time early in the 13th century, when the culture of southern Europe altered its course. In 1210, Simon de Montfort spread terror throughout the Languedoc to flush Cathar heretics from their lairs, shouting over the voices of the troubadours.
Bone-mend and Salt, Book 1, launches this adventure of conspiracy and revenge. Three adventurers seek a mutual enemy, while a holocaust is being kindled in the cities and villages of the Languedoc.
Trebuchets in the Garden, Book 2, follows the adventurers as they are snared into the Languedoc crusade, while Simon de Montfort prepares to ignite the next heretics' pyre.
Crux Lunata, Book 3, follows warriors from the Accidental Heretics world down medieval alleys and across Andalusian rooftops, when French knights paused from the crusade against Cathars to help Castile and Aragon invade Moorish Andalusia.
The Madwoman of La Catalane, a novella, journeys into the Pyrenees hills, where so-called heretics hide from their persecutors–and answers a mystery posed in Crux Lunata.


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Companies turning again to stock buybacks to reward shareholders
BRENDAN MCDERMID/REUTERS – Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in this Nov. 21 photo.The 30 companies listed on the Dow Jones industrial average have authorized $211 billion so far in 2013, according to data from Birinyi Associates.
By Jia Lynn Yang, Published: December 15
Battered by months of disappointing sales, networking giant Cisco needed a way to give its shareholders a pick-me-up. So the San Jose-based firm did what has become routine for many big U.S. companies in a slow-growing economy: It announced last month that it was buying back shares of its stock.
The amount authorized to be spent was $15 billion, surpassing the $10 billion in net income the company earned last year. It's also 21 / 2 times what Cisco spent on research and development, and it comes as the company lays off 5 percent of its workforce, or 4,000 employees.
This is what U.S. multinationals do now with their cash. Rather than tout big new investments, raise worker wages or hire more employees, companies are more likely to set aside funds to reward shareholders — a trend that took a dip during the recession but has roared back during the recovery.
The 30 companies listed on the Dow Jones industrial average have authorized $211 billion in buybacks in 2013, according to data from Birinyi Associates, helping to lift the benchmark stock index to heights not seen since the tech boom of the late 1990s. By comparison, the amount is nearly three times what the group spent on research and development last year, according to data from S&P Capital IQ.
Why spend so much on stock repurchasing? When the number of shares outstanding falls, the value of each one goes up, instantly rewarding shareholders.
The repurchase also lifts earnings per share, an important number closely watched by investors — and by corporate boards in determining executive pay. Of the 30 companies making up the Dow index, all but four list earnings per share in their public documents as a metric used to determine executive pay.
Ultimately, analysts say, when companies spend money on buybacks rather than investment, they're signaling low hopes for economic growth.
"Corporate profits are very high, but corporations are not expecting a huge burst of growth," said Ben Inker, co-head of asset allocation at GMO, an investment-management firm. "Given that they're not expecting a lot of growth, there isn't a lot of reason to invest. So they're finding ways of getting money back to shareholders."
The types of companies that authorize buybacks transcend industry. Among the Dow 30, more than half have approved stock buybacks this year, essentially earmarking money for repurchases that can take place over years. Home Depot authorized $17 billion in February; Goldman Sachs signed off on $10.8 billion in April; Pfizer greenlighted $10 billion in June; and Wal-Mart authorized $15 billion in June.
The announcements often come on top of ongoing share repurchases that outpace spending on research and development. AT&T, for instance, has spent $11.1 billion this year buying back shares, compared with the $1.3 billion it spent last year on research and development. Pfizer has used $11.5 billion to repurchase shares; the pharmaceutical company logged $7.9 billion in research last year.
Cisco spokeswoman Kristin Carvell said the company has not announced a time frame for completing the $15 billion buyback, so evaluating the size of the authorization next to annual net income is "not necessarily a direct comparison."
She rejected the idea that the company is authorizing buybacks because it doesn't see investment opportunities. Carvell said Cisco is able to do both — return cash to shareholders and make investments. Carvell also said that the recent layoffs were done not to cut operational costs but rather to allow the company to invest in "key growth areas."
Cisco announced its buyback authorization the same day it released disappointing quarterly earnings. The bad news outweighed the repurchase declaration and sent the stock down 11 percent.
In the past three decades, the stock buyback has become a standard move in the playbook of corporate America, echoing a growing fixation on maximizing shareholder value.
The rise of share buybacks reflects a belief that a company's primary purpose is to return value to shareholders, even though that principle is not codified by U.S. Statute.
Helping to fuel the stock market's meteoric rise is the Federal Reserve's stimulus program designed to lower borrowing costs. Companies are taking advantage, often by borrowing money at low rates to repurchase shares, although it's unclear how much of the debt is being used to pay for buybacks.
"It somehow feels scarier if they borrowed the money to buy back stock than if they had some investment opportunities," Inker said. "That somehow seems more sustainable than just levering up to reduce the share count."
Some analysts say companies are better off repurchasing shares than pouring money into investments promising dubious payoffs, especially in a slow-growing economy. But others argue that the rise of the share buyback is encouraging executives to make decisions that aren't always good for their firms or for the economy, rewarding companies for finding quick ways to please shareholders rather than innovating and planning for long-term growth.
"It's not just the money," William Lazonick, a professor of economics and director of the Center for Industrial Competitiveness at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, said of buybacks. "It changes the strategy of the company. It undermines innovation."
Share buybacks weren't always a fixture in corporate America. In 1985, only 52 stock repurchases were authorized, according to Birinyi Associates. This year there have been 885.
Buybacks at all companies this year are on track to reach $754 billion, shy of the $863 billion record set in 2007 but far above the 2009 low during the recession.
Lazonick traces the rise of buybacks to a rule passed by the Securities and Exchange Commission in 1982 that gave "safe harbor" to corporations repurchasing large parcels of stock — a way to protect them from charges of price manipulation.
"It's systemic," Lazonick said. "One company does it, everybody feels compelled to do it. Otherwise their stock price will lag behind."
Another factor, experts say, is that executive pay is increasingly tied to movements in the stock market as corporate boards try to tie pay to performance. And often, the compensation itself comes in the form of stock.
The use of restricted stock grants to pay executives hit an all-time high in 2012, according to research firm Equilar, with 93 percent of Standard & Poor's Composite 1500 companies granting restricted stock to employees, compared with 80 percent in 2007.
But some corporate governance experts question why pay is so closely tied to share prices and metrics such as earnings per share, which executives can so easily alter in the short term.
Roger Martin, former dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, likened stock-based pay to professional football players being allowed to bet on the games they play in: They have too much control over the outcome.
"In football, they have this absolute rule, which is if you're ever caught betting on football if you're a player or manager, you get punted out for life," Martin said. "In the world of business, it's a different rule."
As the stock market has surged back to pre-recession levels, executive pay has shot back up as well. Equilar found that chief executives' compensation is "growing at levels last seen prior to the recession," according to its 2013 report on CEO pay strategies. Meanwhile, average worker pay has remained stagnant since before the crisis.
And pressure is growing, often from activist investors, for firms to return even more value to shareholders. Carl Icahn, for instance, has been loudly pressing Apple to do a buyback of as much as $150 billion, although he recently scaled back his request.
Companies can take years to complete the process. This year, the companies in the Dow 30 have executed $132 billion worth of buybacks. Lazonick has calculated that over the past decade, companies in the S&P 500-stock index have spent just over half of their net income executing buybacks.
Still, lawmakers have rarely taken notice. In the summer of 2008, when gasoline prices spiked, a handful of Democrats on Capitol Hill, including Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), blasted oil companies for announcing buybacks while customers paid more at the pump.
"What's shocking is that Big Oil is plowing these profits into stock buybacks instead of increasing production or investing in alternative energy," Schumer said in a statement at the time.
No substantive policy action on buybacks followed. Yet the way firms deploy their capital — along with what executives are paid — has broad ramifications for the economy.
"Executives get paid for what other companies are doing or what the sentiments of investors are, something that has nothing to do with their business plans," said Keith Johnson, former legal counsel to Wisconsin's public pension fund. "It's just a really bad way to run an economy. It perverts the allocation of capital."
For firms, repurchasing shares has become something to boast about to shareholders — proof that executives are looking out for them.
"We have a financial priority to return value to our shareholders through dividends and share repurchases," Jeff Davis, treasurer and executive vice president of Wal-Mart, said on an earnings call with analysts last month. Davis reported that the company spent $1.7 billion on repurchasing shares in the most recent quarter. Of the $15 billion approved by the firm to be spent this way, Davis added, there was still room for billions more.
DMHE wrote:
This is exactly what happened in the 1990's that created the .com bubble-bust and how Clinton looked so good when things were sliding backwards in the economy. Basically the Frank-Pelosi-Dodd act does nothing to correct foolishness in the markets.Here is what's headed your way; the preferred stock holders have been buying up all the stock they can leverage at stock option prices which can be as low as 50% of the retail stock price. Thus giving them massive asset ownership in the company. This also raises the stock prices at the retail market values. You as a stock holder believe things are going great because your stock has risen 25% over the past year. You start to invest heavier in your portfolio thus raising the retail stock prices ever higher. At a pre-determined date, the preferred stock holders then sell their 1 million block shares by the dozen; the stock market drops like a rock and the preferred shareholders absorb all of your hard earned savings. Leaving you high, dry and broke then blaming a poor economy for the failure of Wall Street when it was a planed play on market shares from the beginning.The best bet is to pull your money soon because failure is headed your way! Welcome to the Vegas style stock market!
devin3 wrote:
Cisco posted $11B in profits then laid off 4000 workers, then buys back $15B of their own stock! There needs to be a tax designed to discourage this sort of behavior. A company in that position ought to be raising wages for everyone and investing in new technology, not handing out a special treat to their millionaire shareholders and executives. This is class warfare at its most blatant and the rich are winning.
Rimfire wrote:
Companies must do what is in the best interest of the shareholders first.
kr7355 wrote:
Company cash does not belong to employees or consumers because they do not bear the risk of financial loss of the company. As shareholders do bear that risk, they are entitled to company profits (which are the reward for avoiding losses).In a time in which higher share prices are the result of ultra-easy monetary policy and not organic economic growth, there are only two ways to return company cash to shareholders: (1) stock buybacks; or (2) dividend hikes. One way or the other, company share prices will rise; however, stock buybacks are preferred over dividend hikes for at least two reasons: (1) if the company stock is undervalued, then the company is buying back its shares at a bargain price; and (2) shareholders will pay the capital gains tax rate on capital gains from share buybacks and not the ordinary income tax rate on dividends.In short, share buybacks are a win-win for a company and its owners. And if you do not bear the risk of financial loss of the company, then you are not entitled to any of its profits, let alone a say to whom those profits should go.(I know someone will bring up "too big to fail" and other government guarantees to crony capitalists. Considering taxpayers are taking a bath on the GM bailout, "too big to fail" cannot end too soon.)
vorticist wrote:
Anyone who wants the full understanding of this should read Hedrick Smith's "Who Stole the American Dream". Shows in full the impact of the shift corporate America took in the 1960′s away from a model whereby wealth was directed toward the community and the virtuous circle it created to that in the 70′s and 80′s where the shareholder was considered supreme and where returns to both shareholders and management could be maximized the fastest and easiest way by lowering the cost of labor in an era of globalization. It was deliberate. Policies guaranteeing all this were put in place by an explosion of lobbying that went on at the state and local levels. And so the money is not put back to use for domestic "growth" but instead squirreled away offshore or used to buy foreign goods. Anyway, it reads like a road map to where we are now
Martin wrote:
A scion of the Walton royal family of billionaires (kneel when you speak their name) must have written this. Lower prices, lower wages = disaster and decline. Higher wages and higher prices = progress
Techite wrote:
End of tax year ledger cleaning, that's all it appears to be. A simple, but effective and common, tax avoidance move for risk mitigation and compliance assurance purposes.
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Dec 23, 2013
The Buyback, Dividend Bonanza Picks Up Steam
Rich prosper amid large income gap
By Jack Torry and Jessica Wehrman Monday December 16, 2013 7:29 AM
WASHINGTON — Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards liked to speak of "two Americas." Freshly elected New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio this year called it "a tale of two cities."
Their message was clear and simple: One part of the country is comfortably rich, the other is struggling.
For the past three decades, wealthier Americans have seen their annual income grow at a far-faster rate than all other Americans. Studies show that even after the wealthy pay income taxes and the low-income receive federal help in the form of food stamps, Medicaid and education grants, a huge financial chasm remains between them.
In a 2011 report, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office concluded that the average after-tax household income for the wealthiest 1 percent grew 275 percent between 1979 and 2007 compared to 65 percent for the 20 percent of households in the next-highest income group. By contrast, the 60 percent of households in the middle- and lower-income groups saw their average real after-tax income increase by 40 percent.
Although real household income for all Americans increased during that time, economists say that the huge financial gap exacerbated the 2008 recession for middle-income people who had much of their wealth tied up in their homes. As home prices collapsed, those Americans compensated by curbing borrowing and spending less on consumer goods.
In a speech in April in New York City, Sarah Bloom Raskin, a member of the Federal Reserve Board who has been nominated as deputy secretary of the Treasury Department, concluded that "because of how hard these lower-and middle-income households were hit, the (2008) recession was worse and the recovery" less robust.
"Even if you make certain corrections, the gap is growing," said Tom Garrett, an economics professor at the University of Mississippi and author of income-inequality studies when he was an economist for the Federal Reserve Bank in St. Louis.
"My argument: It's not the size of the gap that matters, it is the fact that we have a growing percentage of the population at or below poverty," Garrett said. "It seems there needs to be policy about what we can do to move the people at the bottom away from the bottom, while recognizing we don't want policies in place that discourage people from moving up."
Nobody has yet to produce a formula to reduce the gap. It has grown under Republican presidents and Democratic presidents. It has grown no matter which political party controls Congress. And it has grown despite major tax cuts in 1981 and 2001 and substantial tax increases in 1993 and this year.
Just two weeks ago, President Barack Obama called income inequality "the defining challenge of our time," saying that since 1979, the U.S. economy "has more than doubled in size, but most of that growth has flowed to a fortunate few."
In his speech, Obama cited both income inequality and the inability of Americans to advance from the lower-income group to a higher group. But a 2007 report by the Treasury Department showed that between 1996 and 2005, roughly half the taxpayers in the bottom 20 percent in 1996 advanced to a higher-income group by 2005.
The same report showed only 25 percent of the very wealthiest of American families in 1996 remained in that group a decade later. And the report showed that "the degree of mobility among income groups is unchanged from" 1987 through 1997.
"To close the income gap, the most important thing is jobs," said Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio. " Second, we've got to figure out how to reform our K-12 system so it works better for the kids falling between the cracks."
Democratic politicians and some economists offer a broad swath of explanations for the gap, ranging from income and business tax cuts that tended to favor the wealthy.
They complain that free-trade agreements and the sharp drop in unionized workers have crippled wage growth for middle-income people. They contend that the federal minimum wage has not been raised enough to close the gap.
But other economists point out that the gap is due to sweeping technological changes in manufacturing that favor better-educated workers while punishing workers without the ready skills to adapt to the new economy.
Combined with the rapid growth of high-paying jobs in the financial and health industries as well as a rapid increase in the pay of chief executive officers, the gap between the top 20 percent and the rest has exploded.
"Certain skills are rewarded more than other skills have been,'' said Bradley Heim, an economist and professor of public and environmental affairs at Indiana University. "If you are a highly skilled worker, technology has served to complement your skills. The returns to that group have increased and the returns of a lower-skilled worker have decreased.''
Those changes may be beyond Washington's power to revise. "You're not going to pass a law in D.C. that un-does technological change,'' Heim said. "A good chunk of this is due to larger forces that don't necessarily have a ready policy response to them.''
Yet Heather Boushey, executive director of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, said that federal and state policy decisions have fueled the gap, saying that Congress has allowed the value of the minimum wage "to be eroded over time. We don't index it for inflation."
"And then at the very top, we have seen a cultural shift,'' Boushey said. "Forty years ago having these huge gaps between the top and the bottom was not socially acceptable. Now, it is."
Democrats have rallied around a menu of ideas, such as raising the minimum wage, ending tax deductions that encourage companies to hire people at factories abroad, expanding pre-school, extending unemployment benefits, raising taxes on the wealthy and increasing Social Security benefits.
"It's also — and this is where I'm critical of my own party, too — it's trade agreements and manufacturing strategy that actually focuses on manufacturing instead of financial services," said Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio. "This government under presidents from both parties has had a bias toward financial services at the expense of manufacturing. And we need to balance that."
In his speech two weeks ago, Obama also cited making quality pre-school "available to every child in America." Although conservatives have complained that programs such as Head Start are not nearly as effective as their backers claim, Boushey and Garrett insist that early education can make a dent in the financial gap.
"In terms of a long-term solution, it is education that matters," Garrett said. "By the age of 5 or 6, a child's long-term success is pre-determined by their pre-K environment. Spending more money at the high school or college level, that's not where we'll see the big differences. The big difference is preparing young children right away."
"The problem is poor people are poor because the value of their labor as valued by the market is low," Garrett said. "There is a reason people working at McDonald's earn the minimum wage. Giving them more money through a higher minimum wage — in an accounting sense it raises their income, but their productivity hasn't changed. You want people to permanently increase their productivity."
Looking at the graph accompanying this article, I notice that the income of the rich begins to rise faster than everyone else's around 1980, just as St. Ronald came into power. Many of us have associated his benighted administration with the beginning of a long, slow decline in the fortunes of the bottom 99% of Americans in favor of the wealthy. This graph makes that point very clearly.
2013-12-16 06:15:17.0
On another page, money from an inherited family media empire pays for George Will to call for abolishing the minimum wage. You can't make this stuff up.
2013-12-16 07:23:32.0
Curiously enough, the old saying, "The rich get richer while the poor get poorer" turns out NOT to be just an old saying." Hey Republicans —— tell us about that "trickle down" idea again? It kicks in………WHEN is that exactly?
2013-12-16 08:03:03.0
The changes in the tax code account for much of the inequity. Bring back the top rates of the Eisenhower era or even those when Regan first took office and see the gap shrink considerably. Yes, it's true that the extremely wealthy pay a large portion of total revenues collected, but it's still a relatively low percentage of their personal incomes – - testimony to the the truly staggering amounts they rake in annually. And no, they don't "earn" all that income like ordinary folks do. They simply "acquire" their big bucks mainly through passive investments.
2013-12-16 08:46:06.0
The article states, falsely, that no one has come up with a formula to bring about a change in this gap. Many blame the widening gap on US policies which include income tax structure, wage and labor support and open attacks on such supports for the poor as housing subsidy and food stamps. It is no accident that The lines on the graph begin to part when Ronald Reagan ran on a platform attacking "Welfare Queens," followed by erosion of the public belief that public policy could impact the extent to which wealth is divided or accessible. To this day it is not possible to discuss distribution, or redistribution of wealth without bringing forth accusations of being a ****** pinko. Face it people, the line at the top didn't take a sharp upturn because those folks suddenly started working harder than everyone else. It took that turn because we allowed the erosion of protections against them putting more of every dollar of wealth created by the folks at the bottom into their own pockets. And we allowed it because the folks in the middle have been deluded into believing that they have a shot at the top if let the top have its own way. Sorry, but the shot at being on the bottom is an infinitely better bet for most of us–even those who are hard-working, reasonably well-educated, industrious and honest.
2013-12-16 10:09:50.0
Free market capitalism can empower/reward those most productive & most innovative. This meritocracy should not only be tolerated but celebrated in a democratic nation. But capitalism has known excesses, clearly demonstrated by history. Typically they are collusion & monopoly in all its varied forms. It happened in the gilded era, again in the roaring 20′s and has raised its ugly head again over the last 30 odd years. Now we have massive wealth going to many without merit, whose only claim is they are able to get away with it. The regulatory system, our government, is captured by the wealthy to perpetuate the scam. Needless to say, it usually does not end well and could encourage the growth of socialist & communists parties. In short, if the rich don't tone it down, they may have it torn down.
2013-12-16 10:20:50.0
I am pretty tired of being trickled on from St. Ronnie's economic plans that never really ended. The decline of the middle class and wages is in direct correlation to the decline of worker's rights, the rise of "right to work", and the silencing of the true working Americans. Leave it to Koch-clone Portman to mouth the party line of blaming it on teachers while the Republicans slash education funding and destroy schools gleefully demonizing educators. He must have pulled out his Club for Growth and Americans for Prosperity cue card and read from it directly.
2013-12-16 11:52:44.0
We can thank rising inflation costs for this one
2013-12-16 12:05:17.0
Brennan, I must tell you that a concern among the economies of the world, including ours, is that inflation is currently too LOW, not too high. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said last month that the U.S. central bank would remain alert to preventing inflation from declining too far from its goal of 2 percent. The Fed's preferred gauge of price pressures facing consumers, the PCE price index, is running at slightly above 1 percent on a yearly basis. Bernanke said this was "too little." The economics of this are kind of involved, but basically if the average inflation rate is too low, then the economy faces a greater risk that a given adverse shock could distort labor markets, induce debt deflation, or cause monetary policy to become constrained by the zero lower bound on nominal interest rates. These risks imply that undershooting a zero inflation objective is potentially more costly than overshooting that objective by the same amount, and that setting the inflation objective at a rate a bit above zero provides some insurance against these risks. Hence Bernanke's target of 2%, but no lower.
2013-12-16 12:23:22.0
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