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Daily Archives: April 7, 2014
Time to curb the counterproductive mis-incentives of share buybacks (again)
In 1982 the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (financial firm controlled) used Rule 10b-18 to legalize large-scale buybacks so long as they did not exceed 25% of a company’s average daily trading volume over the previous four weeks. Previously the … Continue reading
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US Supreme Court allows larger individual political contributions
Last week, the US Supreme Court struck down restrictions on how much individual donors can contribute to candidates, political parties and political action committees. The Court voted along its party lines, with a 5(Republican)-4 (Democrat) finding that aggregate limits for … Continue reading
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