How American CEOs got so rich

For a long time, it was off-limits for a corporation to buy back its own stock. Not anymore. Become a Video Lab member! American companies today spend billions on stock buybacks. So what does that mean for the US economy? And how did it help make American CEOs so unbelievably rich? To learn more about stock buybacks, General Motors, and the Lordstown GM plant, check out the following sources: William Lazonick, Harvard Business Review: Profits Without Prosperity (
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