Goldman Sachs just completed an analysis of corporate balance
sheets and found that dividend and stock buybacks accounted for 103.8% of their
free cash flow. Meaning that they were paying more out in cash than they had on
hand! Over the last year, free cash flow has dropped 15 %, while debt is
up 8 %.
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