Is it time to end corporate stock buybacks?

Get the Full StoryThe shareholder primacy model that has defined U.S. business in the past few years has made executives and shareholders richer, and kept worker salaries stagnant. Now, a diverse group of politicians and researchers are saying it s time to reconsider the model.

You d be forgiven for thinking that Bernie Sanders and Marco Rubio will never really see eye to eye on a political issue. But the two senators, who both ran for president on opposite sides of the aisle in 2016, have found common ground, strangely, in the idea that corporate stock buybacks when a company pays a shareholder cash for their shares are a bad thing.Read Full Story

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