Alan, You're a Rich Man

 

How ya like me now?

Ford CEO Alan Mulally wasn't a household name before a gaggle of congressdouches treated him and his two American peers like dogs last year. Having his name besmirched for problems he'd only recently inherited couldn't have been too much fun, but when he becomes the face of American CEOs and probably Time's man of the year (or second to Obama) that congressional drubbing will be a distant memory. Ford is poised to really kick some ass and for that Mr. Mulally will be paid handsomely. Ford's Board granted Mulally options to buy 5 million Ford shares at a little under two bucks. Today that was worth about twenty million clams. When sales climb close to or all the way back to what they were or and Ford has gained more market share than anyone thought possible (I say 20% domestic easily) his options should be a cool hundred million.