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am_Unition · 1950 days ago · link · · parent · post: Stock buybacks hit a record $1.1 trillion, and the year’s not over
It'd be fun to cross-correlate buybacks with the nasdaq, spx, fed interest rates, categories of debt per capita, etc. People are probably already doing that, but I'm not gonna read those papers, got a long queue, etc. And what do you think, 'bl00, is Trump right to blame the fed, to some degree, for the poor market performance this week? The graph suggests that we should fit some exponential decay factor (with a peak near 1982), and implies we're just as sensitive to fed interest rates crashing "the market" as we were in 1957 or so. I don't understand why that might be the case.