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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bacha29" data-source="post: 5376956" data-attributes="member: 58386">It gained back today  (8-23) about half what if lost yesterday. Keep in mind something here. That dividend hike is going to cost them 455 million dollars a year in the face of growing expectations of a recession next year .Looks like they've got two unpleasant choices. Draw on reserves and credit to go in and try to save ground or end the whole miserable mess and begin converting to a straight up and down employer/employee model. Based on past practice they'll try to split it down the middle with a complex new rate structure that seek to hide and even more constrained revenue base for contractors then go out and try to sell it to them with first a sweet talk approach then if that doesn't work a more threatening tone.</blockquote>