Comments on economic issues and developments published by AIR researchers and affiliates
SEC nominees must not grant companies ‘safe harbor’ with buyback rule
By Lenore Palladino "Last week, two nominees went before the Banking Committee to get their chance to become the next commissioners of ...
Shareholders Benefit, Don’t Add Value To Companies (Interview with William Lazonick)
"William Lazonick, Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, talks about his most recent book Predatory Value Extraction: How ...
Sick with “Shareholder Value”: US Pharma’s Financialized Business Model During the Pandemic
by William Lazonick and Öner Tulum On August 16, 2022, Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act, which, among other things, ...
Stock buybacks enriching executives, killing jobs (interview with Lynn Parramore)
By R. J. Eskow [Click HERE to watch the interview] ...
Stock Buybacks Threaten Economic Growth
By Michelle Celarier "Soon after economist William Lazonick became a fellow at Harvard Business School in 1984, the world he ...
Stock buybacks,” (Interview with William Lazonick)
By Arnie Arnesen [Clicke HERE to listen the interview] ...
Stock buybacks: Driving a high-profit, low-wage economy
By Lenore Palladino "Stock buybacks by America’s largest public companies have exploded—one financial services firm recently predicted that buybacks would ...
Stock buybacks: Free-market ideology’s license to loot
By William Lazonick, speaker at the forum "William Lazonick, Professor Emeritus, U Mass Lowell, speaks at the forum, “Destroying the ...
Tea Petrin, July 9, 1944-April 4, 2023.
With profound sadness, I am informing the AIRnet community of the passing on April 4, 2023, of Tea Petrin, a ...
The ‘Tax Cuts for Shareholders’ Act
By Lenore Palladino "In the six weeks since the passage of the GOP tax plan, officially known as the Tax ...
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