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Re:End Stock Buybacks, Save the Economy? by kgwgk on Thursday August 23, 2018 @08:08PM (#17831703)
At least those are not done through the exploitative appropriation of the surplus value produced by the worker.
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Re:End Stock Buybacks, Save the Economy? by ahelwer on Thursday August 23, 2018 @08:13PM (#17831724)
Of course they are! The full debt will be repaid in time, with interest. Where does that money come from?
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Re:End Stock Buybacks, Save the Economy? by kgwgk on Thursday August 23, 2018 @08:31PM (#17831818)
Sometimes the full debt is not repaid. In that case the money comes from the lenders and bond-holders and they never get it back. And the shareholders also lose everything in that scenario, of course.
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Re:End Stock Buybacks, Save the Economy? by longtermsec on Thursday August 23, 2018 @09:26PM (#17832063)
The money for the interest payments comes from taxes!
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