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It Does Not Matter that Buybacks Have Driven the Stock Market

It Does Not Matter that Buybacks Have Driven the Stock Market

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Mar 29, 2020
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A couple of weeks ago, Adam Tooze tweeted a Deutsche Bank Global Research piece that argued that the stock market rally has been driven by share buybacks. The upshot was that the stock market rally was hollow; an artifact of companies pumping their own stock.

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More recently, I found out from a friend on Facebook that David Kostin, Goldman's chief equity s…

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