Ban Buybacks?

(1) Who’s on first? (2) Financial engineering in one easy lesson. (3) Strategists shouldn’t be preachers. (4) Elizabeth Warren: The Fairy Godmother of the Bears. (5) Are buybacks sugar highs for corporations? (6) Meet Senator Baldwin. (7) Professor Lazonick explains how buybacks worsen income inequality. (8) Goldman prefers M&A to buybacks. (9) Depressions, recessions, secular stagnation, and bananas. (10) Mostly ho-hum indicators around the world. (11) Focus on overweight-rated S&P 500 Health Care industries.