I left school at 16 and headed straight into the building trade, spending the next decade honing my skills.
The exact amount will depend on how many days of the season the players in the trade spend with each team.
Paolo Venturi of A.T. Kearney, a consultancy, says that a range of discounts and incentive payments can be collectively defined as "trade spend"—the costs incurred by manufacturers in doing business with the retailers.
As retailers have grown in clout, they have also squeezed the consumer-goods firms for more "trade spending"—the money the likes of P&G must stump up for in-store promotion, displays and eye-level shelf space.
But all he had to offer were giveaways to energy companies, free trade, spending cuts, school choice, tax cuts for small businesses, and, yes, you guessed it, repealing Obamacare.
The software aims to eliminate blind spots in trade spend, product distribution and in-store merchandising.
"But in general, groups working on fair trade spend a lot of overhead on tracing materials.
E-trade spent some $20 million last quarter and is building a new tech development center in Georgia.
"Are we at a competitive disadvantage because of our name?" In the bubble days E-Trade spent a lot of money cultivating its image of exuberant excess.
"We don't know how many students graduate, how many get jobs, how schools that are not publicly traded spend their Title IV dollars, and how many for-profit students default over the long term," Mr. Harkin said.
