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Inequality Watch: 2018 Promises Record Stock Buybacks

March 23, 2018 by runawayinequality

JP Morgan says S&P 500 companies will buy back $800 billion of their own shares this year, up from the $530 billion spent in 2017.

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Read about financial stripmining, the extraction of wealth from companies for the benefit of the wealthy, and how it crushed the middle class, here.

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