157 Results for “William Lazonick”
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Does America Want a CHIPS for Buybacks Act?
Oct 4, 2021
To strengthen the American semiconductor industry, Congress should condition additional funds on suspending stock buybacks
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Stock Buybacks Hurt Workers and the Economy. We Should Ban Them.
Feb 27, 2018
Workers, innovation, and productivity all suffer when corporations spend their new U.S. tax breaks on stock buybacks.
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Is Wall Street Doing its Job?
May 20, 2016
What we’re reading: A weekly scan of published items relevant to the Institute’s work
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How Shareholder Activism Became Toxic—and How to Fix It
Jan 28, 2025
New book reveals how and why hedge-fund activists have been able to suck the life from big-name companies like J.C. Penney and Samsung with their short-sighted profit-grabs. Can their harmful activities be stopped?
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"Build Back Better" Needs an Agenda for Upward Mobility
Jan 5, 2021
How the dream of a middle class existence collapsed, first for Blacks, then for more and more white American workers and what the Biden administration could do to retrieve the situation.
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Trump-Style Policies Will Deepen the “American Carnage”
Jun 20, 2017
Current proposals will worsen inequality and harm those Trump promised to protect—while further enriching the top 1%
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CARES Will Care for Wall Street and Big Business, for Macroeconomic Balance Maybe Not So Much
Apr 6, 2020
Much historical commentary emphasizes how pandemics restructure long-standing social and political arrangements. The observation applies to macroeconomics as well.
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What the UAW and Everyone Else Need to Know About CEO Pay
Oct 2, 2023
What is GM CEO Mary Barra’s take-home pay? (It’s more than you are being told)
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Apple’s “Capital Return Program”: Where Are the Patient Capitalists?
Nov 13, 2018
Instead of rewarding the taxpayers and employees who actually create value for the tech giant, Apple is doling out massive stock buybacks
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What the Steve Jobs Movie Won’t Tell You About Apple’s Success
Oct 23, 2015
Public funding behind the technology is the secret ingredient.
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Losing Out in Critical Technologies: Cisco Systems and Financialization
Feb 28, 2023
Cisco’s turn from innovation to financialization and what it means for the competitive position of the US information-and-communication-technology industry
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How GM’s $10-Billion Buyback May Ice Its EV Transition
Dec 18, 2023
Reindustrialization vs Financialization
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Where Did You Go, Vice President Joe?
Mar 4, 2022
President Biden’s first SOTU Address was a missed opportunity to say what he knows to be true: Stock buybacks manipulate the market and leave most Americans worse off
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The Scourge of Corporate Financialization: Income Inequity, Employment Instability, Productive Fragility
Aug 21, 2023
Stock buybacks as a mode of predatory value extraction
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Chicago School Economists Got it Wrong. Strong Antitrust Policy Boosts the Economy.
Mar 29, 2021
History shows robust antitrust enforcement helps promote a prosperous, fair, and balanced economy. Antitrust expert Mark Glick explains how the U.S. went astray during the 1980s, and how to get back on track.