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Franklin Templeton
Company blog · osam.com/Commentaryeconomicsbusiness
Franklin Templeton is the company blog at osam.com, writing about economics and business. Since 2018, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link an OSAM (Franklin Templeton) whitepaper on whether stock buybacks drove corporate profit growth as "financial engineering", as a data-driven analysis.
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What Hacker News says?
OSAM has a great data-driven analysis of this question and end up on the other side in the conclusion: https://www.osam.com/pdfs/whitepapers/_2_Commentary_Buybacks...
Comment linking /pdfs/whitepapers/_2_Commentary_BuybacksBearsBulls_Oct-2016.pdf
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