At the expense of workers, consumers, animals, community, and planet.... Stock buybacks were illegal until 1982, when the Reagan Revolution turned market manipulation into an art form. It's a system of corporate tyranny that increases the fortunes of a few at the expense of the many. This will not end until we end it. #DisruptTheSystem marianne2024.com
Stunning figure. The White House’s National Economic Council reports that major corporations are spending roughly 90% of their earnings on stock buybacks and dividends. What’s left for investment? Not much, unless these corporations are taking on debt. -R

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As a boomer and a liberal I think we should be diverting more efforts into destroying the future of this country through debt and money printing, instead of these diversionary social issues. We are doing good, but we can always do better.
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Stock buybacks are a social good.
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It’s their money. Not yours or anyone else’s. They can do with it what they want. Mind your own business. Petty tyrant.
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Given a few years, she'll come to understand why the lower middle class voted Trump over Clinton. She might even quite hating them so.
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You really know nothing about economics or the stock market do you? It’s like these topics are taboo to Dems.
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You sound batty again.
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Disrupt the system. Best joke of year.
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It's their fucking money... lol