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"A factor of six..."

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Ted Bauer
Sep 21, 2017
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I'm not going to keep you waiting. This isn't some blogging blue balls deal here.

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He cites the seminal research by economist William Lazonick, who studied S&P 500 companies from 2003 to 2012 and discovered that they routinely spend 54% of their earnings buying back their own stock (reducing the number of outstanding shares and driving up share …

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