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Covid-19 – some perspective

Covid-19 – some perspective

It’s been a weird old time recently. I expect we will look back on this time with vague memories of how it felt. Some, like me, will remember being given back my commute time and being more efficient despite a tiny bit of network-slowness. Some have experienced the ‘Covid-19 experience’ popularized by the media: Others, like supermarket workers, doctors, nurses and other hospital workers, public health workers, construction workers, delivery people, florists, and those in so many other careers, will…

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Buying back shares

Buying back shares

As US airlines are accused of buying back shares, I thought it might be helpful to explain what buying back shares really means, and why you might want to sell and buy shares at all, if you’re a company. The airlines are being criticized because they might become short of cash now, as people stop flying and as the economy overall is likely to slow significantly. [That’s right, this is the third COVID-19 post in a row because, let’s be…

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