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Elizabeth Warren: “Stock buybacks used to be illegal market manipulation. Today they are routine.”

On the recordMay 25, 2021
Stock buybacks used to be illegal market manipulation. Today they are routine.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Warren criticizes the normalization of stock buybacks as detrimental to the economy.

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