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The Importance of Stock Buybacks
US workers have not participated in substantial productivity since the mid 1970s. Main culprit is stockholders, bullying management into doing what management always wants to do anyway - buy their own stock back. In my opinion, of course it should be illegal. GDP growth has slowed you know in the US for the last 30 years as this new fashion came in. Productivity has irregularly but obviously slowed down. The state of US capitalism is not that healthy with the, I believe, with the exception of the VC industry, which is still pretty good.