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Re:Stock buybacks are dangerous for the economy by Ntrails on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @05:48PM (#22610841)
> If companies can’t issue buybacks or dividends with outstanding debt or unfounded pension liabilities society is simply better off.

This is just the sort of fun financial engineering challenge that will not end the way the rulemaker intended...

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Re:Stock buybacks are dangerous for the economy by Retric on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @07:26PM (#22611778)
As stated it’s easy to have a parent company receiving payments for IP by a subsidiary with debt. But, that’s also why laws are longer than just one sentence and interpreted by people not machines.
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