Despite a seemingly fatal blow from the Crash of 2008, stock buybacks live on, like the creature at the end of a horror film, whose sinister claws rises from the muck, just as the good guys are celebrating victory over evil. […]

In the article, The quarter-century buyback era draws to an end, I announced the demise of the dominant role of stock buybacks in the economy, although there has been no official death certificate and the body has not yet been found. The buyback era began in 1982 when the US Securities and Exchange Commission promulgated Rule […]

The fourth quarter of 2008 is known for the international banking crisis which will lead to dramatic changes in financial regulation and to massive de-leveraging of institutions. Generally overlooked in the current analyses, however, are indications that the stock buyback era that began in the early 1980s, has finally come to a sudden and […]