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Stock swindles: A buyback is not just a dividend by another name.

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Stock buybacks are stock swindles: Raising the value of a stock without raising the value of the company.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
Object permanence: Marshmellow longtermism; Physicists are not epidemiologists; CO asphyxiation accounts for half of Hurricane Laura deaths.
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Recent appearances: Where I've been.
Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em.
Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em.
Colophon: All the rest.

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