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Senator Cory Booker explains: what the hell is a stock buyback?

Senator Cory Booker explains: what the hell is a stock buyback?

FromPitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer


Senator Cory Booker explains: what the hell is a stock buyback?

FromPitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

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Length:
32 minutes
Released:
Feb 26, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Senator Cory Booker explains the problem with stock buybacks, walks us through his Workers Dividend Act, and offers Goldy some much-needed counseling. 
Cory Booker is the U.S. Senator from New Jersey and a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate. 
Twitter: @CoryBooker
Further reading: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/6/17083398/booker-buyback-populist 
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/02/kill-stock-buyback-to-save-the-american-economy/385259/
Released:
Feb 26, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

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Any society that allows itself to become radically unequal eventually collapses into an uprising or a police state—or both. Join venture capitalist Nick Hanauer and some of the world’s leading economic and political thinkers in an exploration of who gets what and why. Turns out, everything you learned about economics is wrong. And if we don’t do something about rising inequality, the pitchforks are coming.