news.goldseek.com / By Gordon T. Long / 8 July 2014
What do corporate CEOs and Boards know which everyone is missing and that is driving them to executing corporate buybacks approximating $2 Trillion over 24 months? The answer is a free tax ride thanks to the Macroprudential Strategy of the Fed’s ongoing game of Financial Repression. A game which may be quickly getting out of control!
UNPRECEDENTED BUYBACKS LEVELS
In case you are in the 1% who have been too busy counting your startling increase in net worth, let me first highlight the velocity with which corporate buybacks have accelerated to.
90% of all S&P 500 profits are presently being spent on corporate Buybacks and Dividends. This is historically unheard of.
We are approaching nearly $2 Trillion in buybacks by the S&P 500 members within a forecasted 2 year period.
So why is this distortion happening?
A FREE TAX RIDE
We presently have one of the biggest tax ruses in history going on as the Fed and US Treasury desperately try and increase the wealth effect to elevate asset prices and finance government debt. To make low bond yield seem relatively attractive (at present historic lows), the Fed needs to get stock yields down via elevating stock prices. Corporations have been willing accomplices in this charade.
