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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHeard On MSNBC $1 Trillion Stock Buy Backs Announced - $1.2 Trillion Dollar Deficit This Year
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Heard On MSNBC $1 Trillion Stock Buy Backs Announced - $1.2 Trillion Dollar Deficit This Year (Original Post)
PaulX2
Jan 2019
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ck4829
(35,045 posts)1. All to make the market look good. Lipstick on a corpse.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,783 posts)2. So much for job creation from the "Job Creators"
Which is why Republicans LOVE Tax Cuts.
WeekiWater
(3,259 posts)3. It's going to be interesting to see how all of this works out.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=11708993
We hit one trillion in buybacks last year.
https://www.barrons.com/articles/2018-record-stock-buybacks-51545361596
We hit one trillion in buybacks last year.
https://www.barrons.com/articles/2018-record-stock-buybacks-51545361596
TheFarseer
(9,322 posts)4. Buybacks weren't even legal until 1982
Right about when the long term bull market started. What a coincidence.
Ilsa
(61,694 posts)5. It's just as predicted.
I don't watch tv all day, but Ratner and Morning Joe and Mica all said this was going to happen.