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Providing workers more
options
to enhance their knowledge and skills would enable them to capitalize on developing technologies, such as mobile Internet and social media, not only by filling positions at existing companies, but also by launching their own enterprises.
“I can say almost with certainty that they will come to a bad end,” he declared in January, while noting for good measure that he would be glad to buy put
options
on every one of them.
But how can deliberately limiting one’s
options
improve one’s prospects?
As far as equity-based compensation is concerned, executives should not be allowed to cash out
options
and shares given to them for a period of, say, five years after the time of “vesting” – that is, the point at which the
options
and shares have been “earned“ and may not be taken away from the executive.
An executive’s inability to cash out shares and
options
for a substantial period would tie his or her payoff to long-term shareholder value.
By contrast, prohibiting executives from cashing out shares and
options
until they leave the firm would provide executives who have accumulated shares and
options
with a large monetary value with counter-productive incentives to depart.
Executives’ interests were tied to the value of their firms’ common shares – or even to the value of
options
on such shares.
And no one would blame them for taking their time to consider their
options.
US policy
options
are limited.
Those
options
are not retained by, say, Panama, and will not be retained by countries that adopt the Euro.
Of course, when a country has run out of options, it will play along to gain access to official bailout funds.
Expansion was, for lack of other options, financed largely through short-term loans.
People might trade away cheaper goods for assurances that a wide range of productive and rewarding employment
options
would be available, now and in the future.
There are now two
options
for the region: one is a “shock integration” program that takes all of the Western Balkan states into the EU; the other is a journey into the unknown.
Only then can they be assured access to the resources essential for treatment
options.
There are at least three options: shift to non-carbon energy sources such as solar or nuclear energy; capture and dispose of the carbon dioxide emitted at carbon-based power plants; economize on energy use, for example by shifting to hybrid automobiles and trucks.
If the Syrian government continues to block access to aid arbitrarily, several
options
could be brought to bear.
In Iraq in 2003, lesser
options
had far from run their course, which is arguably true now in Bahrain, Yemen, and Syria.
As a result, the PBOC is losing control over interest rates on corporate loans, and thus has few
options
for constraining leverage ratios.
The problem is that these are currently much more costly
options
than their carbon-heavy alternatives.
If targeted at the most promising technology
options
(say, solar and wind), such a strategy would yield early unit cost write-downs through innovation, learning, and economies of scale; give the private sector clear, credible, and attractive signals; and encourage energy efficiency.
Old people invest their savings and pensions from home computers; young men and women give up working for salaries to seek a big pay-off in the stock
options
on offer from dot.com firms.
Have the major advanced economies’ central banks – which have borne the burden of sustaining anemic post-2008 recoveries – really run out of
options?
But the challenge facing Orthodoxy underscores the three
options
that all contemporary religious communities now face: to resist pluralism, to withdraw from it, or to engage with it.
And one of the most promising
options
is nuclear fusion – the process that powers the sun and all stars.
Some discourage investment in nuclear fusion, claiming that, given how far from being market-ready the technology is, our financial resources are better allocated to tried and tested energy
options.
Without nuclear fusion, future generations’ energy
options
will be severely limited – creating a serious problem for developed and developing countries alike.
This “extend and pretend” or “lend and pray” approach is bound to fail, because, unfortunately, most of the
options
that indebted countries have used in the past to extricate themselves from excessive debt are not feasible.
Lowering private and public consumption in order to boost private savings, and implementing fiscal austerity to reduce private and public debts, aren’t options, either.
So far, Musharraf has accepted his diminishing stature quietly – though he has few other
options.
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