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Hans Eirik Olav's avatar

Only way to keep share price high to ensure bonuses for top management before everything implodes.

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Randy Best's avatar

I'm not sure which are the worst-politicians, banksters or CEOs.

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Doug Youngman's avatar

All Americans have habituated to the illusion that reality avoidance can save them.

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Robert R's avatar

Nailed it! That's what a stock is, a pure illusion of ownership. If stocks equal ownership than we would be able to burn/destroy our shares. Price to earnings ratio would be a real thing but these companies loose money year over year and the share price still goes up. Can't make that one up.

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Doug Youngman's avatar

... monetary policy is boring until you discover the game is rigged and you've been ripped off. Did you hear all the ATM machines are down in the U.S.? Just kiddin'...

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Robert R's avatar

Absolutely. Creating value out of thin air and forcing us to except it as payment aka "legal tender" Thats why you and I sell our dollars for commodity money. Yelp I'm waiting for that to happen next real soon. 😂🤣😂

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Mark -'s avatar

They are all equally bad news

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Kevin's avatar

totally agree, the greed world is upon us for sure.

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Scott's avatar

There's no difference anymore

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Brandt Mohney's avatar

Stock buy backs should be completely illegal. It's basically a way for members of the corporate board to artificially/fraudently drive up the price of their stock so they can make more money through stock bonuses. Corporate profits that should have been re-invested in the business for the benefit of employees, customers, suppliers and shareholders get siphoned off to the executives instead.

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M Howell99's avatar

Lining for those Golden parachutes

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Jim Bunce's avatar

They all know the market is tanking. Pull everything out keep under their control and show all their investors that they'll be taken care. In the meantime all the exec's know what's really going on and protect themselves.

Hell our government is no different

They are one and the same

Good luck to the little people!

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Bootsonthegrounddrey4rmdabay21's avatar

Common denominator is the dollar. Any numerator is worthless when the denominator is oo infinity

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Memememememememememememememe's avatar

When income inequality reaches a certain percentage social unrest is guaranteed I think they call it the gini coefficient

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Scott's avatar

I hope we see more Luigi's, keep the violence contained to those responsible.

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Memememememememememememememe's avatar

sorry i cant get behind that.

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Darrell Garrison's avatar

It would appear investors are selling trillions . Or shorting trillions so they buy back to keep price above their projections in tact total crap shoot g.m.

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T.O's avatar

Tells us they don’t feel comfortable putting their money elsewhere, including future company growth!

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svartberg's avatar

All to fulle the illusion.

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JayEmm's avatar

BOUGHT WITH ON HAND CASH - OR MORE COMPANY DEBT? Because one strengthens the stock and the other could be key stock holders bailing before the crash

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svartberg's avatar

Debt. That from FED.

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carole doerr's avatar

Stock buybacks are a big reason for the huge well gap between the rich, Middle Class and the poor. Also, these buy backs have stopped corporations from investing in the infrastructure of our country and other situations that make life better for WE the People. These buybacks and if the big beautiful bill passed will contribute to the death of the Middle Class until the banks take away our money in the Great Taking.

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Doug Youngman's avatar

They can take buckets of water from the deep end of the pool and dump it in the shallow end- and still have us believe they are filling the pool.

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Henkel's avatar

Agent provocateur chaos script it CIA chaos orchestrated managed chaos happening in Los Angeles and if anybody doesn’t get it, they are the problem. Trump is the master of chaos. He is the master of disaster. He is the war on immigration that means more immigration than ever just like the war of free speech the total destruction of free speech of censorship. He is the master of everything happening. He’s the greatest con man deep state trillionaire, New York City real estate casino killer

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Stan Sylvester's avatar

Proverbs 10:2

"Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness, [right living], saves from death."

At some point all of us have to pay the piper. God allows us the free will to choose how we will live.

Proverbs 16:8

"Better is a little with righteousness, than great income with injustice."

God's timeless Word point us to the balance needed in life. It's amazing what verses never get read in professing Christian denominations. Tradition and religious dogma take precedence. Small wonder folks lose interest.

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Doug Youngman's avatar

... they chose Barabbas because they hated the truth.

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Stan Sylvester's avatar

They trusted the temple leadership. They followed their directives. After all, their father was Abraham! [John 8:39.]

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Joel-Geri Dee's avatar

All this buying is to counter-weight that the companies earnings per share are declining at a faster pace.

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