How to End the Stock Buyback Deluge
The dramatic widening of income inequality reflects how the corporate mission has shifted over the last 35 years.
View ArticleIt’s Time to Ban Stock Buybacks
The Trump tax cuts have exposed how the Shareholder First economy benefits Wall Street investors and CEOs at the expense of everyone else.
View ArticleTrump’s Big Buyback Bamboozle
Trump's promise that corporations will use his giant new tax cut to make new investments and raise workers' wages is proving to be about as truthful as his promise to release his tax returns.
View ArticleThe Buyback Boondoggle Is Beggaring America
We need to make stock buybacks illegal, as they were before 1982.
View ArticleThe Vapid Defense of Share Buybacks
The Post gives defenders their say, and they don't say much.
View ArticleThe Curse of Stock Buybacks
For the past three decades, the overriding priority of American corporations has been paying their shareholders. That’s just what they’ve done with their tax cut.
View ArticleBernie Sanders and Chuck Schumer's Surprising Collaboration -- and Weird...
Sanders and Schumer target buybacks as a way to leak corporate profits to investors. But their solution is an unnecessary Rube Goldberg contraption.
View ArticleHow Stock Buybacks Undermine Sustainable Prosperity
The debate over buybacks is a debate over how to create more broadly shared prosperity. Here’s why their defenders’ arguments are flat-out wrong.
View ArticleA Groundbreaking New Enterprise: Buybax!
Want to make a killing in the stock market without actually creating anything of value? Try Buybax!
View ArticleHow to Really End Shareholder Capitalism
It’s now increasingly clear that maximizing shareholder value has led to minimizing everything else a corporation could and should do.
View ArticleIt’s Time to Nationalize the Airlines
America’s most consumer-abusing and environment-degrading industry wants us to bail it out. Instead, we should take it over.
View ArticleThe $5.3 Trillion Question Behind America’s COVID-19 Failure
That’s the amount of buybacks U.S. corporations funneled to shareholders during the past decade—rather than invest in technologies for the common good.
View ArticleThe Return of the Buyback—and Mississippi Rules
Today on TAP: The Supreme Court agrees to weigh in on a Mississippi anti-choice law
View ArticlePharma Companies Spend Billions More on Stock Buybacks Than Developing Drugs
House Oversight Committee report combats industry claims that lower drug prices would stifle innovation.
View ArticleDealing With Sinema
Today on TAP: The Arizona weirdo has compelled the Democrats to abandon taxing the rich—so they’re proposing to tax rich folks’ unearned gains.
View ArticleBuilding Back Better Through Taxing Stock Buybacks
Today on TAP: Rather than squandering money on CEOs’ rewarding themselves, the tax would fund needed investment. Do I hear a second?
View ArticleFertilizer Firms Spread Wealth to Shareholders as Farmers Weather Extreme Prices
U.S. officials have banned fertilizer imports from key overseas competitors while domestic firms fork over billions in stock buybacks.
View ArticleA Stock Buyback Tax Isn’t a Great Idea
It essentially cuts the government in on the buyback scam, making it harder to actually eliminate the practice.
View ArticleWhat’s Wrong at the Times
Management authorized $150 million for a stock buyback this year but resists the union’s wage proposal, which would yearly come to $15 million more than the paper wants to pay.
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