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Thu Mar 19 20:45:28 2020 <6707bcd9> An unrelated word to the wary: zh is an echo chamber, they are in the business of attracting eyeballs, not providing object information <6707bcd9> I am of the opinion that, while there are hard weeks and months ahead, corona virus is already on the way out <8f79fcda> yea, they’re […]

Thu Mar 19 20:23:52 2020
<6707bcd9> See I think that’s the point of penalizing bailouts
<6707bcd9> It incentivizes companies to save and hedge for downturn, instead of doing stock buybacks

Thu Mar 19 19:11:42 2020
<9e126bf3> absolutely. Same for individuals. But neither individuals nor companies are incentivized to save and hedge for downturn. The ones that do always win

Thu Mar 19 18:59:49 2020
<6707bcd9> Good points. If these companies had ploughed money back into themselves, wouldn’t have been in a better position to weather economic situations?

Thu Mar 19 18:42:27 2020 <9e126bf3> Well companies themselves, as screwed up as some have been (Boeing, banks, etc.) can’t really be blamed this time for a crash- the economy has been forced into a lower energy state. They could all have been perfect saints and still suffer big losses. Especially if we’re stuck in […]

Thu Mar 19 18:30:13 2020 <9e126bf3> why are people blaming stock buybacks for anything, really? It’s the opposite of dilution… you want companies to be able to buy back their own stock especially because they issued stock in the first place to raise capital from the public. Seems strange to blame the rewarding of investors […]

Thu Mar 19 18:17:51 2020
<6707bcd9> <https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/03/18/mark-cuban-says-bailed-out-companies-should-never-be-allowed-to-buy-back-their-stocks-ever-again.html|https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/03/18/mark-cuban-says-bailed-out-compa…