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1 posted on 07/29/2015 5:12:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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There is no “economic policy” that Hillary Clinton has. She says what she needs to after colluding calculation of what will sound best to get her elected, get a law passed, operate as she needs, or to just plain get money to do her evil.

With most people, their measure can be gauged by the number of lies they tell. With Hillary, it is those extremely rare times when she tells the truth, if that has actually ever happened.


2 posted on 07/29/2015 5:17:32 AM PDT by Gaffer
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...if we all just focused on the long term by jacking up capital-gains taxes...

What!? I big-government liberal fascist saying more taxes, more government control is the answer? I'm shocked, shocked I say! {really, not so much}

...buys stakes in companies such as Apple to prod management to make decisions that boost its share price, such as stock buybacks and the sale of assets...

No dear Hitlery, companies have been burying profits in stock buy-backs to avoid taxes on them. That whole notion that upper management makes short-term decisions only to jack the stock price and make themselves look good is popular tripe, but like so many urban legends that sound good/right/believable it is just as wrong.

If CEOs really acted that way they would come in, jack the stock for a couple of years, then move on to the next position before their short-sighted decisions came back to bite them. However, they'd leave behind a trail of broken and subsequently poorly performing companies and pretty quick boards would associate them with trouble. That's not what happens in spite of the popular meme. I just googled a dozen companies or so and all their CEOs have been in place 6 to 15 years. Being a CEO is a pretty good gig - just look at all the envy generated on the left by the "income inequality." These guys don't want to leave what is probably the best job they've ever had and may ever have. They are, on average, in it for the long haul.

Well, when has reality ever gotten in the way of a good divisive, envy-generating message from the liberals?

8 posted on 07/29/2015 6:01:16 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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Ninety-nine percent of Democratic voters have no idea what a stock buyback or a hedge fund may be.

Their only political interest in banks and corporations is finding a candidate to vote for who will destroy those institutions and redistribute their wealth to themselves.

The only reason Hillary’s candidacy is still functioning is because probably 80% of Democratic voters have no idea who Bernie Sanders is. When they find out he’s the redistributionist candidate of their dreams, they’ll flock to him and Hillary will become a distant memory.


10 posted on 07/29/2015 6:12:05 AM PDT by Bluestocking
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She attacked financiers in the name of an "activist hedge fund" — like the one run by investment-guru Carl Icahn her son-in-law Mark Mezvinsky.

There, fixed it.

11 posted on 07/29/2015 6:26:47 AM PDT by Henchster (Free Republic - the BEST site on the web!)
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