By Jared Bernstein “You’ve hopefully heard about, if not read, this revealing analysis by William Lazonick on the sharp rise in public corporations using their profits to boost their share price through stock buybacks as opposed to re-investment.”… [Click HERE to read…
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L’industrie Pharmaceutique: Règles, acteurs et pouvoir
By Marie-Claude Bergouignan, Matthieu Montalban, Andy Smith and Erdem Sakinç With its significant economic weight, pharmaceutical industry is confronted today with many difficulties. Increasing market share of generic drugs, even more restrictive regulations which limit market authorization or ongoing…
Instant gratification
By Paul Roberts “A half-hour east of Seattle, not far from the headquarters of Microsoft, Amazon, and other icons of the digital revolution, reSTART, a rehab center for Internet addicts, reveals some of the downsides of that revolution.”… [Click HERE…
Time for reasonable curbs on stock buybacks
Former U.S. Senator Ted Kaufman argues that stock buybacks “are great for the top earners but hurt overall economic growth and exacerbate income inequality.” Click here to read the full text.
Do You Seriously Want To Be Rich? Then Buy Back Shares And Raise The Dividend
Robert Lenzner, former National Editor of Forbes, concludes that massive stock buybacks represent “an emergency in corporate land that requires investigation and possible changes to public policy.” Click here to read the full text.
The Inequality ‘Smoking Gun’
By Auriandra “The benefits of increased productivity over the last 35 years have not gone to the middle class. So, where did they go? UMass’s William Lazonick identifies a key change made by the Reagan Administration – to date largely…
Class issues, not race, will likely seal the next election
By Joel Kotkin “Recent events in Ferguson, Missouri and along the U.S.-Mexico border may seem to suggest that race has returned as the signature issue in American politics. We can see this already in the pages of mainstream media, with…
Time for reasonable curbs on stock buybacks
By Ted Kaufman (former U.S. Senator from Delaware) “Income inequality is a hot subject. The statistics are stark and undeniable; nobody really argues against the fact that the disparity of income between the top 1 percent and the rest of…
The bear in the room
By Richard Stavros “This China-based company is the owner of independently-chartered container ships. We are drawn to this stock because of its predictability. Their entire business is based around the long-term, fixed-rate time charters of 79 massive container ships.”… [Click…
Steve Denning’s article series on stock buybacks
Steve Denning has written four articles on Forbes based on William Lazonick’s Harvard Business Review article and the growing debate on the role of stock-based pay in changing corporate governance. HBR: How CEOs Became Takers, Not Makers From CEO ‘Takers’…
