Blankfein Defends Share Buybacks, Countering Bernie Sanders

Goldman May Shrink Fixed-Income Trading Unit as Blankfein Defends Buybacks
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Former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein took to Twitter for the first time in almost seven months to respond to a New York Times opinionBloomberg Terminal piece by Senators Chuck Schumer and Bernie Sanders that argued for limits on corporate stock buybacks.

“The money doesn’t vanish,” Blankfein tweetedBloomberg Terminal. “It gets reinvested in higher growth businesses that boost the economy and jobs.”