Recognition of AIR research, opinions, and people in the media and elsewhere
Are buybacks hurting the economy?
By Cydney Posner "According to “Companies’ Stock Buybacks Help Buoy the Market,” by Dan Strumpf, published in the WSJ on September 15, ...
Are CEOs worth that much? Not by a long shot
By Ted Kaufman "On Aug. 5, the Securities Exchange Commission approved a rule that will require major public companies to ...
Are companies stabbing their employees in the buyback? S&P 500 companies spent over $2 trillion on buybacks since 2009
By Anora Mahmudova "Large U.S. corporations spent more than $2 trillion buying back their own shares from 2009 through the ...
Are companies that buy back their own shares manipulating the market
By David Green "Last week’s white paper on industrial strategy put forward a few useful ideas but ignores the main ...
Are stock buybacks deepening America’s inequality
By Matt Egan "Since 2008, companies in the United States have spent a stunning $5.1 trillion to buy back their ...
Are stock buybacks hurting the working class? US senator presses the SEC to reexamine its policies
By Owen Davis "The topic of stock buybacks is quickly moving from the financial press to the national political stage. In ...
Are stock buybacks too high?
By Tyler Cowen "Edward Luce writes in The Financial Times: According to William Lazonick, a scholar at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, ...
As Americans get gouged on healthcare, Big Pharma cannibalizes profit to feed shareholders
By Angelo Young "To give you an idea of how much Americans are getting gouged on their purchases of medicine, ...
As share buybacks wane investors feel the pain
By Xavier Brenner "One of the big mysteries behind the bull market that kicked off in March of 2009 is ...
via the Star I by Bruce Livesey I August 15, 2020
As the pandemic continues, the rich are getting richer than ever before — and economists are getting concerned
"If the COVID-19 pandemic has produced winners and losers, then young Canadian billionaire Tobias Lütke is definitely a winner. Since ...
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