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Re:The WeWork IPO by onlyrealcuzzo on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @10:31AM (#20747396)

All that money did not go to fund "hooey" tech companies. $450B total has gone into VC since 2009. Stock buybacks in 2018 for U.S. companies alone was $1.1T.

Total global QE is $12.3T.

U.S. stock buybacks alone could be about $5.3T--or an order of magnitude more than global VC investment.

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Re:The WeWork IPO by sol_remmy2 on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @03:19PM (#20750881)

I'm not sure why you're trying to draw a connection between stock buybacks and QE when there isn't one.

Stock buybacks are just tax-optimized dividends.

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Re:The WeWork IPO by linuxftw on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @04:01PM (#20751403)

Stock buybacks are a misappropriation of capital fueled by QE/low interest rate environments.

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