Jul. 19 at 1:39 PM
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Rant on buybacks: Part 2
Go to hell, Wall Street
Isn’t the ideal of investing in companies to make money? We’re talking green here. Quit pushing the prices of paper money around so you can manipulate the prices up and down, slowly fleecing the retail investor. Man, you greedy buzzards on Wall Street have sold this bill of good so well I don
t know if we can ever turn it around.
Buybacks mechanically increase Earnings Per Share (EPS) by reducing the total share count, which can mask slowing underlying business growth.Shift to Total Return Strategies: With direct payouts shrinking, the broader market profile has skewed toward growth stocks—particularly in tech and AI. Investors looking for passive income have had to adapt by leaning more on covered-call strategies, dividend-focused ETFs, or fixed-income assets to replace lost yields.
