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Re:Stock buybacks are dangerous for the economy by supercanuck on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @03:29PM (#22609198)
But they took that money to PAY themselves.

Making any of the reasons you stated above would make sense, but that did not happen

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Re:Stock buybacks are dangerous for the economy by JoshuaDavid on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @03:40PM (#22620430)
Money is fungible. They would have paid themselves with or without a loan, so the money they would have used to pay themselves if they hadn't gotten a loan can now be invested.
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