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Re:Suspicious Discontinuities by nnx on Thursday February 20, 2020 @11:56PM (#22381034)
As Andrew Yang rightly said "nobody has ever wondered if shareholders would screw up, make bad choices, when receiving their dividends".
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Re:Suspicious Discontinuities by taneq on Friday February 21, 2020 @12:43AM (#22381175)
And this is the right way to look at it. In addition to being a free agent, every citizen should be treated as a shareholder in the nation.
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Re:Suspicious Discontinuities by fitech on Friday February 21, 2020 @04:02AM (#22381843)
no company that has costs well above revenue for decades is paying out dividends.
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Re:Suspicious Discontinuities by FabHK on Friday February 21, 2020 @07:45AM (#22382660)
But many companies have debt that they just roll over. Not many companies aim to be debt free, because it is not necessarily a good goal. You need capital, and optimise its mix. At current rates, issuing debt is attractive.
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