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Im one of the people that thinks they are functionally the same with a tax benefit (not a dodge)

Manipulation of the market rings hollow. The price changes, but there is no deceit. Running a successful business or starting a dividend also changes the price, but isn't manipulation. Who exactly is duped by BuyBacks?

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The only segnificant difference is that with stock buybacks, they have a bit more control over how and when it happens.

Investors have turned dividends into a religion. They must come every quarter like clockwork and never decrease; otherwise, it seems like there's a five-alarm fire and the place is on the brink of bankruptcy. It is irrational but reality.

you are preaching to the choir.

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