That may still be worth it to the Wall Street firm, but the reward mechanism is time-consuming to apply, creates internal jealousies, and skews profit-sharing throughout the bank.
Koogle says the company would be worth more but for Wall Street's assumption that its ads (which provide 85% of revenue) are just another commodity in a glutted market.
Cutting entitlements at the same time as buying hundreds of billions of dollars-worth of bad loans from Wall Street is difficult politics, to say the least.
Another possibility, suggests Mr Kirkendall, is that federal prosecutors have looked at the large number of successful appeals against the convictions they won in jury trials of executives from Enron and other firms, of which Mr Skilling's and Lord Black's are the latest, and have concluded that going after Wall Street executives is not worth the career risk.
Now, with the Internet a darling of Wall Street, this stake was worth big money.
Some Wall Street economists figure this is worth about 1 percentage point of growth.
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Banks up and down Wall Street were writing off billions worth of mortgage exposures in late 2007.
It's always worth taking a look down every side street since you never know what you'll find there, waiting to be discovered.
Nearby Covent Garden is also worth checking out, especially around Neal Street.
They usually provide the opportunity to figure out how Wall Street values what corporate leaders are worth to stockholders.
Stores have to become more fun to visit, so shoppers feel it is worth the trip to the mall or high street.
Its street value was more than one months' worth of Suriname's legal exports.
But before anyone starts claiming moral high ground, it is worth appreciating why some of the things happening on Wall Street are unlikely to happen here.
Does the President think that prolonged street demonstrations or sit-ins are worth the cost of that kind of free expression -- even when it burdens cities that are really strapped otherwise?
As they grew, they strayed from their core business into putting their names behind hundreds of billions-worth of subprime mortgage-backed securities cooked up by Wall Street.
Morgan Stanley is funding billions of dollars worth of deals with loans, but, like other Wall Street firms, is having difficulty finding buyers of the corporate debt.
Consumer confidence among high net worth individuals has waned even further since the collapse of Wall Street firm Lehman Brothers in September and the ensuing malaise in the financial sector.
Despite constant Wall Street speculation, Lehman has yet to receive a marriage proposal worth considering from any other bank.
They are trying to find smoking guns that show, for example, that Wall Street executives knew that these mortgage-backed securities weren't worth what they said they were worth.
This is clearly seen through Wall Street analyst valuation eyes, as one digital dollar in revenues is worth more than a hardware sale of three or even four times more.
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The next Treasury secretary inherits a badly shaken financial system, a mandate to rein in Wall Street's excesses, and hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of risky new programs ginned up by the current president to stop the bleeding.
Wall Street is saying that engineering, brand recognition and other intangibles are together worth three times as much as assets you can see and touch.
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