Laurent GUERBY wrote:
> Stock buybacks are strictly equivalent to dividends from an economics
> point of view: it's just a way to move money from the company to the
> shareholders.

Even if they have a similar (or identical) impact on stock prices, is
it possible that stock buybacks reward the gamblers on the stock
market, while dividends reward the "buy and hold" people? if so, it
might encourage the "short-termism" that many see and criticize in
stock markets.
-- 
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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