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subterranean

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1. This should surprise no one.
Tue May 22, 2018, 10:35 AM
May 2018

American corporations consider it their duty to maximize returns to shareholders above all else. Many of them have calculated that stock buybacks are a more effective way to do that, at least in the short term. Besides, they were already raking in record profits and had no shortage of capital even before the tax cuts, so any job-creating investments they make probably would have been made regardless.

This should surprise no one. subterranean May 2018 #1
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