>
> But at what scale of intervention? Has anyone seen
> an informed estimate of
> the full scale of the intervention? (No blind hand
> here - shadowy yes)
I only know that companies were allowed to buy back a lot of their own stock. Sun, Oracle, CISCO and a lot of other Silicon Valley companies did indeed do this.
Thomas
===== <<If the purpose of the action is not to the advantage of the doer but of him who commands, then the doer is a slave, and does not serve his own interest.>> -Spinoza
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