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Re:Fed Prints Another $205B This Week, M2 Growing at Fastest... by colechristensen on Friday April 24, 2020 @11:16AM (#22968868)
Paying dividends is fine if you aren't firing workers or taking bailouts.
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Re:Fed Prints Another $205B This Week, M2 Growing at Fastest... by ballenf on Friday April 24, 2020 @11:45AM (#22969233)
Why is firing workers inconsistent with paying dividends? They kind of feel like two sides of the same coin: a company can't find a better return on its capital so it divests itself of the resource (labor or cash).
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Re:Fed Prints Another $205B This Week, M2 Growing at Fastest... by luckylion on Friday April 24, 2020 @11:55AM (#22969381)
It's not. It's just that these companies shouldn't get handouts.

Buy back stocks in the good times, issue new stock when the going gets rough.

Right now it's "buy back stocks in the good times, get bailouts then the bad times come".

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