Spectra collects a large portion of the economic rents paid to move gas to end users as it controls over 19, 000 miles of pipelines and roughly 7% of natural gas storage capacity in the U.S. What I like is that approximately 80% of cash flows are fee-based while the remaining 20% are linked to commodity prices.

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Subconsciously, I sense that cash hoards on the balance sheets of tech houses like Apple, Google, Qualcomm, Cisco, even Microsoft and Amazon rest there as nest eggs for management.

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Over the past few weeks, in columns like Put the Odds in Your Favor Now, I have been advocating raising cash and taking profits.

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Man, I miss the days when popularity was measured by something pure and simple like the amount of cash you got on your Bar Mitzvah.

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His reply was pretty grumpy, especially when I told him that Mr Sants had said to me that banks like his were holding more cash than the regulator was insisting they had to do.

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Once again, there would be minimal hassle (certainly less than eBay plus no fees) and, like I said above, Amazon store credit is as close as you can get to cash in my house without actually having cash.

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