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Companies Use Borrowed Billions to Buy Back Stock, Not to Invest

August 11, 2019 5:19 pm by IWB

BOTTOM LINE – U.S. corporate borrowing is on track to exceed last year’s record. But the debt binge is financing stock buybacks instead of productive investment.

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