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IBM to replace 8,000 workers with AI automation; no more new hires for roles that can be filled by AI

May 04, 2023 - buybacks in the past, IBM was able to manipulate and inflate its stock price until Warren Buffet eventually sold his shares, the stock buybacks ended, and the stock price at IBM has languished for at least the past five years.

By the end of 2024, IBM's "productivity and efficiency" steps, which include replacing humans with robots, will save the company $2 billion a year, according to CFO James Kavanaugh, who made this statement during the company's recent ...

UAW launches strike at Ford’s “highly profitable” Kentucky Truck Plant

October 22, 2023 - buybacks and slash excessive executive pay.

Watch the video below for more on the UAW's strike at the Ford Truck Plant.

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Pilot shortage and union demand could make passenger flights unaffordable for ordinary Americans.

Hollywood studios go on hiring sprees for AI specialists amid ongoing actors’ and writers’ strike.

Workers at U.K. depot responsible ...

‘Terrorist’ economy: Washington is prepared to create a new financial disaster for the whole world

November 10, 2023 - buybacks….wait buybacks?

Meanwhile, more recently another firm step in the direction of yield curve control was taken when the US Treasury announced that it would be launching a buyback program next year. Somewhere along the way in the slow descent of the US Treasury market into illiquidity and dysfunction we were bound to see direct Treasury purchases of debt that nobody in the market wants to buy – and now we have it.

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As its infant formula sickened babies, Abbott Nutrition issued $5 billion in stock buybacks

May 26, 2022 -

Financial documents and whistleblower testimony unearthed by The Guardian (UK) show that Abbott used massive windfall profits it accumulated between 2019 and 2021 to buy back shares and pump up its dividend disbursement. All the while, the company's infant formula was sickening little ones with bacterial contamination.

"Abbott detected bacteria eight times as its net profits soared by 94% between 2019 and 2021," the Guardian's Tom Perkins wrote in an exposé on the revelation....

PULLING THE PLUG: Bank of America clients withdraw $2.3B from US securities, bank strategist says

April 16, 2023 - buybacks accelerated as client repurchases gained steam and were slightly above seasonal trends for the first time in ten weeks. According to Fox News, buybacks typically accelerate over the subsequent six weeks after earnings season begins per Hall's note. BofA also expects no net contribution to earnings per share from buybacks this year.

BofA: Brace for big cuts to earnings as America faces tougher credit environment

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The mother of all crashes is coming in April 2023

December 09, 2022 - buybacks planted within Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. The measure, which goes into effect in January of next year, will not reduce prices on most goods. That said, stock buybacks are still the main way major corporations keep their stock prices high. Over the past decade, buybacks were funded by money borrowed from banks or from the Fed directly at near-zero interest. Adjusted for inflation, these loans were essentially free money.

Now, the ...

Bed Bath & Beyond files for Chapter 11 “reorganization” bankruptcy following shady board moves and corporate virtue signaling

April 24, 2023 - buybacks at $20-$30 per share, creating the situation Bed Bath & Beyond currently is in," wrote someone in response to the news.

"Share buybacks at those prices is the equivalent of throwing money out the window," wrote another about Gove's actions, which appear to have been done in bad faith at the expense of shareholders.

"They might be an unfriendly board but they can't block a bid by the stalking horse," wrote another about a possible surprise ...

Man earns $21,000 selling guns he made on a 3D printer at New York gun buyback event

October 05, 2022 - buybacks are a fantastic way of showing, number one, that your policies don't work, and, number 2, you're creating perverse demand. You're causing people to show up to these events, and, they don't actually reduce crime whatsoever," he added.

He said he got the idea after seeing people post in Twitter about making ghost guns on 3D printers for gun buybacks.Program changed to exclude certain types of 3D-printed guns

However, the Attorney General’s ...

Yes, Democrats DO want to take our guns away and Kamala Harris admits she will violate the Constitution to do it

August 17, 2020 - buybacks,’ Harris said:

I do believe that we need to do buybacks and I’ll tell you why. They are weapons of war with no place on the streets for the civil society.

Meanwhile, Harris hasn’t said squat about what Antifa, Black Lives Matter, and other Left-wing anarchists are doing to ‘the civil society’ in large cities around the country without using ‘assault weapons.’

In April 2019 during a Democratic debate on CNN, Harris said in response ...

Globalists push for centralization of power amid worldwide economic decline

April 20, 2022 - buybacks have been the main driver for U.S. stocks for years and the buybacks are funded by easy loans from the Fed. These same easy-money policies have triggered the exponential growth of inflation.

If the Federal Reserve would ever hike rates, stocks and numerous sectors of the economy would crash. But if they wouldn't hike rates and stop asset purchases, then there would also be hyperinflationary disasters.

Either way, the American public will lose ...

Silicon Valley Bank crisis: The liquidity crunch we predicted has now begun

March 13, 2023 - buybacks. This cost is going to be far too high and buybacks will falter. Meaning, stock markets will also stop, and drop. It will likely take two or three months before the tax and the rate hikes create a visible effect on markets. This would put our time frame for contraction around March or April of 2023.”

We are now in the middle of March and it appears that the first signs of liquidity crisis are bubbling to the surface with the insolvency of SVB and ...

New report from Rep. Katie Porter reveals how big pharma pursues ‘killer profits’ at the expense of Americans’ health

February 08, 2021 - buybacks than on research and development," the report notes.

Some key findings from the report:

"Competition is central to capitalism," Porter said in a press release introducing the report. "As our report shows, Big Pharma has little incentive to invest in new, critically needed drugs. Instead, pharmaceutical giants are free to devote their resources to acquiring smaller companies that might otherwise force them to compete."

"Lives ...

Beto O’Rourke flips again, now backs mass confiscation of AR-15s

June 01, 2022 - buybacks” as O’Rourke has described his program during his 2019 presidential bid, would entail seizing millions of guns from residents of the state.

It would require extensive cooperation from law enforcement personnel in local and state agencies, many of whom might disagree with a policy of confiscating guns.

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As society suffers, Big Pharma gets stronger and wealthier

February 15, 2021 - buybacks than on research and development."

All of these factors and more have made Big Pharma the largest, wealthiest political and societal force for evil this world has ever seen. Both sides of the political aisle are propagating its success, and We the People are getting dumber, sicker and more disenfranchised with each passing day.

"Competition is central to capitalism," Porter indicated in a press release about her report.

"As our report shows, ...

Wall Street is to blame for Big Tech’s monopolistic rule over commerce, free speech

August 07, 2020 -

Were it not for Wall Street underwriting the mountains of debt that Big Tech firms like Amazon and Facebook were able to acquire, allowing them to engage in potentially illegal share buybacks and spiking their stock prices to “unfathomable levels,” to quote Pam and Russ Martens from Wall Street on Parade, then Big Tech would not even exist, at least not like it does currently.

Despite the serious conflicts of interest involved with this process, major Wall Street ...

A tsunami of debt worth more than $1.5 trillion coming due for commercial property owners

April 12, 2023 - buybacks and where possible, dividend cuts,” she said in an email. “Disposals are a key focus too. Some recent comments from real estate issuers suggest it’s still not easy to sell large portfolios.”

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U.S. financial markets are so fragile that now people who describe expected corrections are BLAMED for causing the crash

March 28, 2020 - buybacks as part of the coronavirus relief bill he signed Thursday, noting that he didn’t want companies using federal taxpayer dollars to improve their market positions at the expense of workers.

On Friday, in an interview with CNBC, Ackman defended his call for the president to shutter the country for a month and pushed back hard against critics who claimed that his warning actually led to major market losses over the past several days (the Dow Jones index was off ...

Ranking Biden official proposed mandatory confiscation of “assault weapons” when she was O’Rourke’s campaign manager

January 03, 2021 - buybacks of weapons of war,” says [Jen O’Malle] Dillon of the Beto campaign in the video. “An assault weapon ban is very, very important, and we need to have it. But that only takes weapons of war off the streets in the future. It does nothing for weapons of war that are currently out there.” 

Dillon goes on to clarify that the Beto gun confiscation plan would affect “15 to 16 million” guns, an unprecedented usurpation of private property on the part of the United ...

Walmart declares war on the First and Second Amendments; now blocking gun sites from Walmart wi-fi

August 20, 2019 - buybacks will have little if any effect on rates of violent crime and gun violence,” notes the Foundation for Economic Education in a post this week.So many things kill — how come only guns are targeted for ‘control’?

Using available data from the FBI and other sources, FEE noted that homicides involving an ‘assault weapon’ actually amount to less than 0.17 percent of all homicides and 0.24 percent of all gun-related killings: 

To further illuminate the relative ...

Florida residents sentenced to 18 years in prison for $200 million baby formula scheme

May 31, 2022 - buybacks.

The baby formula market is a corrupt, FDA-enforced protection racket designed to feed babies processed JUNK ingredients.

After sending America’s baby formula supply to the southern border and creating a shortage, Biden invokes communist takeover of food supply.

Biden sends baby formula to illegals at border while grocery stores run dry.

"I can't feed my son!" Baby formula shortage reaches critical stage in US as desperate parents search for ...