Special Episode: What’s Wrong with Buybacks?
All Else Equal: Making Better Decisions
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Introduction
Jules van binsbergan and jarthan burke talk about bybacks. Buy backs for shareo purchases is the idea that companies can go into the open market to buy back their shares. Recently, this has gote in quite a bit of bad press, particularly by certain politicians. We want to use this episode to clarify exactly what stock wer purchases are, how we should think about them, and then try to put into context whether or not these sheri re purchasers deserve the bad reputation they are receiving.
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