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Do we really need stock markets??? | 110 comments (110 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Do we really need stock markets??? (none / 0)

Neither do companies around here, not when they're start-ups. But after a few years when the cash flows heads to reasonable levels and the initial debt burden has been reduced, there'll be a surplus available for dividends.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Sat Aug 28th, 2010 at 10:53:28 AM EST
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Re: Do we really need stock markets??? (none / 1)

Dividends in the US are beside the point. Microsoft only started paying them in 2003 when they had, from memory, about $30 billion sitting around in their bank accounts.

US stock markets operate under the Greater Fool Theory.

by ATinNM on Sat Aug 28th, 2010 at 12:35:00 PM EST
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As far as I know, the handful of US companies I have shares in all pay dividends.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Sat Aug 28th, 2010 at 12:48:43 PM EST
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