Corporate Governance:
By John Schroy, on July 7th, 2010 | 
M. A. Gumport of MG Holdings has published the July 2010 edition of the Buyback Monitor, showing corporate stock profits for 275 firms over the period 2000-2010. Without buybacks, share prices for the group now would be at least 5.3% higher (nearly 10% higher after adjustment for foregone interest income).
The lack of attention to protecting long-term investors against the massive fraud of stock buybacks is just one more sign that it will be some considerable time before the US works its way out of the present financial morass.
Corporate governance
By John Schroy, on March 10th, 2010 | 
The webcast, This Week in the Boardroom, for February 25, 2010, discusses the issue of stock buybacks with Stephen Lamb, partner of Paul Weiss, a large international law firm prominent in the securities industry.
Wall Street seems to have learned little from the Crash of 2008. The big law firms understand that the safe harbor provided by SEC Rule 10b-18 is still firmly in place; shareholders will continue to be defrauded by employee-directors with impunity.
Evolving economic thought
By John Schroy, on March 5th, 2010 | 
The August 13, 2009 issue of Business Week published an article, “The Buyback Boondoggle — Companies spend lavishly on share repurchases, slowing innovation and job creation”, by William Lazonick, a professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and director of the Center for Industrial Competitiveness.
Because of the multi-trillion dollar scale of the enterprise, buybacks represent a fraud against the retirement plans of a whole generation on a scale that makes Bernie Madoff look like a piker.
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