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Apple has plowed over $500 billion into stock buybacks since 2012 — more than Visa, JPMorgan, or Exxon are worth
(markets.businessinsider.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Stock buy backs are a tax efficient way to return money to stockholders.
The real issue is when companies borrow money to do this.
I would say stock buybacks are already a real issue, doesn't matter if they're borrowing the money or not. If companies had to actually invest in their employees instead of their rich shareholders a lot of issues in our society today would be lessened.
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