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Buybacks
June 26, 2024
Timothy Noah
Trump’s 2017 Tax Cut Created a Huge Stock-Buyback Spree
You probably think that shows corporations are too powerful. I think this shows corporations are enslaved by Wall Street, and should be set free.
March 7, 2023
Timothy Noah
Why Are Journalists—and Warren Buffett—Defending Corporate Greed?
Critics of Biden’s proposal to tax stock buybacks aren’t engaging with what’s bad about this Wall Street practice.
September 28, 2020
Bruce Bartlett
How Corporations Scam Their Shareholders and Screw Over Workers
C-suite executives use share buybacks to manipulate stock prices for their own benefit, and no one else’s.
November 2, 2009
Noam Scheiber
Where Will Growth Come From?
June 29, 2009
The New Republic Staff
Tnrtv: Geithner’s Latest Multi-billion Dollar Gift To Banks
April 19, 2009
Noam Scheiber
Dodgy Numbers At--shocker!--citigroup
January 5, 2009
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