S&P 500 Buybacks*
2019: $795B***
2018: $810B**
2017: $585B**
2016: $500B
2015: $505B
2014: $535B
2013: $505B
2012: $405B
2011: $390B
2010: $285B
2009: $137B*Rolling four quarters data. $5T since 2009.
**Tax Cuts U.S.
***Year to date Q2Via @biancoresearch
— Lawrence McDonald (@Convertbond) October 20, 2019
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Another numscull.
Someone sold those stocks idiot. The money didn’t just go pooof.
Yeah, they sold them to their selves. Stock buybacks.
Yeah, the corporate execs and insiders, LOL.
https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/17/investing/insider-selling-stock-market-buybacks/index.html
The money for the buybacks came, largely, from BOND SALES.
How much of this worthless crap does your pension fund hold?
That’s almost exactly how fucking much the “fed” created out of thin air. Quantitative Easing. The rigged stock market would be at about zero without this bullshit and the Masters of the Universe would be dumpster diving for their next meals. Should have happened in’08. This time when this house of cards crashes it will be infinitely worse.
Negative yields and IPO’s for businesses that lose money hand over fist are the new normal. I never would have thought it possible yet here we are. It cant crash because famine will follow and all the horrors that come with it.
“Can’t”? Just you watch – it MUST crash, and famine will be the lead horror.
Along with insufficient feminine hygiene products.
The buy-backs off set the granting and then exercise of corporate options … allowing the people at the top to cash out without diluting their shares. Also …. shares are being sold to ETFs. General public have gone ape-shit over passive ETFs. Plenty of evidence who is buying at the top … while CEOs dump at historic levels.
All 5 trillion apparently flowed to an extremely small segment of the population, producing the greatest incident of income disparity ever.
Should work out great.