#stockbuybacks — Public Fediverse posts

The Great Tariff Loophole: How a Policy Meant to Help Working Americans Ended Up in Corporate Hands

https://bluepress.blog/2026/09/05/the-great-tariff-loophole-how-a-policy-meant-to-help-working-americans-ended-up-in-corporate-hands/

The Great Tariff Loophole: How a Policy Meant to Help Working Americans Ended Up in Corporate Hands

https://bluepress.blog/2026/09/05/the-great-tariff-loophole-how-a-policy-meant-to-help-working-americans-ended-up-in-corporate-hands/

The Great Tariff Loophole: How a Policy Meant to Help Working Americans Ended Up in Corporate Hands

https://bluepress.blog/2026/09/05/the-great-tariff-loophole-how-a-policy-meant-to-help-working-americans-ended-up-in-corporate-hands/

The Great Tariff Loophole: How a Policy Meant to Help Working Americans Ended Up in Corporate Hands

https://bluepress.blog/2026/09/05/the-great-tariff-loophole-how-a-policy-meant-to-help-working-americans-ended-up-in-corporate-hands/

The Great Tariff Loophole: How a Policy Meant to Help Working Americans Ended Up in Corporate Hands

https://bluepress.blog/2026/09/05/the-great-tariff-loophole-how-a-policy-meant-to-help-working-americans-ended-up-in-corporate-hands/

Boards Often Misunderstand What #StockBuybacks Really Cost https://hbr.org/2026/03/boards-often-misunderstand-what-stock-buybacks-really-cost

Stock buybacks are payroll in disguise.

#WallStreet #financialmarkets #Finance #Scam #financialization #corporategovernance #speculation #stockbuybacks whither #Investment

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/opinion/capitalism-industry-financialization.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KFA.bWSa.v2U8fhdQwyB4&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Great post by @pluralistic on how stock buybacks are an even bigger scam than you thought. And on other ways the billionaire class is fleecing everyone.
https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/02/corprophagia/ #billionaires #stockbuybacks #trump #fascism #StockSwindles #billionaireclass #thesystemisrigged

https://substack.com/@sugarrhi/note/c-155072001

#Tax #Taxes #TaxTheRich #TaxChurches #Billionaires #WealthTax #Wealth #StockBuyBacks #CapialGains #MiddleClass #Rich #Economy

"[I]n the first 8 months of 2025, Trump has allowed America's oligarchs to get $1.1 trillion richer. That's money that you don't have – you won't get the lower prices and higher wages and superior goods that $1.1t would have paid for if companies had spent it on process improvements. It's money they have, which they can spend on things that make you worse off – buying everything from Twitter to the presidency.

There's a lot to be furious about right now, like the masked fascist goons kidnapping our neighbors off the street, and the upside-down health system that is reviving the vaccine-controlled deadly pandemics of yesteryear. But the reason those fascist goons and antivaxers are able to decide how we all live our lives is that a very small number of very rich people converted their stolen wealth to illegitimate power, which they wield over us.

Anyone who lived through the 2008 crisis knows that finance is a deadly weapon. Let the finance sector run your economy and they will steal everything and leave you jobless, homeless and hungry. Trump is a casino guy, and he knows that the only guy making money in a casino is the owner, who gets to set the odds at the machines and tables. By opening the floodgates to trillions in stock buybacks, Trump is turning us all into the suckers at the table, and turning his oligarch investors into little autocrats, with the power to degrade our lives and steal our future."

https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/06/computer-says-huh/#invisible-handcuffs

#USA #Trump #StockBuybacks #Finance #Capitalism #CasinoCapitalism

Ah, the classic tale: while employees at low-wage firms are pinching pennies to afford ramen, 💰 CEOs are diving into Scrooge McDuck-style vaults of cash thanks to stock buybacks. Who needs economic justice when you've got "Executive Excess" to keep the yacht running? 🚤🙄
https://ips-dc.org/report-executive-excess-2025/ #economicjustice #stockbuybacks #executiveexcess #wagegap #corporategreed #wealthinequality #HackerNews #ngated

CEO pay and stock buybacks have soared at the 100 largest low-wage corporations

https://ips-dc.org/report-executive-excess-2025/

#HackerNews #CEOpay #StockBuybacks #LowWageCorporations #IncomeInequality #ExecutiveCompensation

How #Taxes Drive #Inequality

#Stockbuybacks. Sales #taxes. #Loopholes. ... Let's count the ways that #taxreforms to benefit the #rich and big #corporations have exacerbated inequality and drained resources from funding vital #publicprograms.

https://portside.org/2025-06-27/how-taxes-drive-inequality

Trouble in RH land https://hntrbrk.com/rh/?fbclid=IwY2xjawICsA1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHQ1MTlbG4LxV44g_7lpvqU4hLwMBXPPcE0DGv_fk38cOPPtEO8PRDKREhA_aem_6GTfJHR5GbyanRCXj9IAEw #RestorationHardware
#FinancialTroubles
#LuxuryBrand
#CorporateSpending
#StockBuybacks
#DebtManagement
#RetailIndustry
#BankruptcyRisk
#InventoryChallenges
#EuropeanExpansion
#CEOLeadership
#FinancialAnalysis
#AltmanZScore
#CashFlowIssues
#LuxuryRetail

@JoeBeam
Dear Journalists —

The next time a CEO talks about labor costs, mention how much the CEO makes, how much the top 20 other corporate leaders make, and how much has been spent on stock buybacks.

#CEO #CorporateGreed #StockBuybacks #Capitalism #Greed

The parent company of #Walgreens spent $69M on stock buybacks in Nov 2023.

As best as I can tell from this chart, #CVS buys back about $3bil every March (https://www.tipranks.com/stocks/cvs/buybacks)

So #CNN, when you write an article about how companies are downsizing, be sure to include #stockBuybacks.

These corporations are enriching their leadership and their stockholders because that is what #Capitalism says they should do. The could choose to be stewards of #healthcare. They don't

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/16/business/walgreens-cvs-store-closures/index.html

#USA #CEOs #StockBuybacks #LowWages: "Why would CEOs prefer buybacks to dividends? Because CEOs sit on tons of shares. Even if only some of those shares have vested, a CEO who uses this ruse to increase share prices can cash those shares out, borrow against the rest, and count on a big stock grant from shareholders who are grateful for their windfall.

That means that the true cost of a CEO pay package isn't the value of the shares they're awarded – it's the cost of the stock buyback that leads to that award. And this is where the numbers get truly, obscenely, huge.

Take Lowe's: over the past five years, CEO Marvin Ellison spent $43 billion on stock buybacks, netting $18 million for himself in the process. Now, Lowe's has 285,000 employees, half of whom earn less than $33,000/year. Divide Ellison's $18m among those workers and each of them would net a paltry $126/year. But if you were to share out the $43 billion Ellison had to piss up against a wall on stock buybacks among those workers, you'd be able to give every worker a $30,000 bonus, every year:
(...)
Lowe's leads the "Low-Wage 100," IPS's index of the worst paying 100 companies out of the S&P 500. Over the past five years, the Low-Wage 100 has spent more than half a trillion dollars on stock buybacks. As with other companies, the CEOs of the Low-Wage 100 timed mass sell-offs of their shares to coincide with the buybacks:"

https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/09/low-wage-100/#executive-excess

#StockBuybacks Are #Lethal, Literally

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/stock-buybacks-are-lethal-literally

Let's Be Blunt: Ninety Percent of American #CEO's making rapacious salaries have #Zero skills for globally competitive marketplaces. In the absence of #Mergers, #Monopolization, #StockBuybacks and finally #PrivateEquity they are frauds and chumps living in their parents basements

As a Seattle area kid I grew up with so many Boeing connections, parents of friends, scout leaders, aunts and uncles. I even thought about going into aerospace engineering. But the decline of it's culture has been clear since the 90's

#Boeing #stockbuybacks #latestagecapitalism

https://youtu.be/Q8oCilY4szc?si=duY0F0KEal-x61I2

Jalopnik: John Oliver Explains How All Of Boeing's Problems Can Be Traced Back To Stock Buybacks And Incompetent Leadership
Once a paragon of quality, Boeing's focus on its stock price has caused hundreds to die.
https://jalopnik.com/john-oliver-explains-how-all-of-boeings-problems-can-be-1851315604
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q8oCilY4szc
#Boeing #StockBuybacks #JohnOliver

How #TechWorkers went from dreaming of starting revolutions, to dreaming of fake #startups, to dreaming of a job for life, to fearing layoffs to make way for #StockBuybacks.

https://doctorow.medium.com/the-proletarianization-of-tech-workers-ad0a6b09f7e6?sk=6dc50e8e1afc9bbd523a2fee4959e5c0

#Precarity #Financialization #EndStageCapitalism

The 100 Largest #LowWage #Employers Have Spent $341 Billion on #StockBuybacks Since 2020
https://inequality.org/great-divide/ceo-pay-stock-buybacks/

Low-wage #corporations spent $341 billion on #StockBuybacks
https://www.commondreams.org/news/corporate-stock-buybacks