January 13, 2014 at 9:12 pm
#803138
wakeflood
Participant
Breezy, here’s one article with some links. I’ve seen others but don’t have more time right now…
“One September 2013 study by a team of three economics professors at the University of Illinois found that “spending $1 million in repurchases is associated with a $44,000 decrease in capital expenditures, a $36,000 decrease in R&D spending, and a reduction of 91 employees.”
Magnify that even conservatively to the Post’s figure of $211 billion in stock buybacks and it is clear that this practice means that millions of jobs could be created if this capital were plowed back into businesses rather than used to inflate stock prices and executive pay.”
http://ourfuture.org/20131216/those-stock-buybacks-are-costing-us-jobs