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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “The amount that pharmaceuticals spent on that same time to buy their own stock for the sole purpose of driving up the…”

On the recordJuly 25, 2019
The amount that pharmaceuticals spent on that same time to buy their own stock for the sole purpose of driving up the price was $516 billion.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democratic · New York

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Ocasio-Cortez contrasts R&D spending with stock buybacks by pharmaceuticals.

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