They raise cash and help to shrink GE's balance sheet--at the expense of GE's reputation for buying smart and making earnings grow.

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This, it says, has not come at America's expense: GE plans to add two more research centres in the United States to the one it runs in upstate New York.

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That General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ) will expense stock options is not the real news.

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