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<div><font face="Arial"><b>When Should a Company Write Down Assets<br>
</b>Wall Street Journal<br>
- ?14 hours ago?<br>
Exxon Mobil Corp. XOM -1.23 % is under scrutiny for a question that's
fraught for any business: When should a company decide its assets
literally aren't worth it?</font></div>
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Full story behind paywall at:</font></div>
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>http://www.wsj.com/articles/when-should-a-company-write-down-assets-</u
></font><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#1A1A1A">1474064470</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000"><br>
"Booms have consequences."</font><br>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">James
Grant.</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000"><i>Money of the
Mind : Borrowing and Lending in America from the Civil War to Michael
Milken.</i></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">Farrar Straus
Giroux. 1992.</font></div>
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