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Think debt-funded stock buybacks are pernicious? Here’s why you’re right

September 24, 2014admin

By Steve Roth

“I’ve ranted about this phenomenon for a long time:

 Do Businesses Borrow to Invest in Productive Assets?

Quoting JW Mason: “the marginal dollar borrowed by a nonfinancial business in this period was simply handed on to shareholders, without funding any productive expenditure at all.”…

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