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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: puborectalis who wrote (4547)1/3/2017 12:24:15 PM
From: combjelly  Respond to of 358547
 
“The reality is that cash that is brought home will be used to pay dividends, to buy back shares, to engage in mergers and acquisitions, to rearrange the financial chessboard, not to invest in large amounts of new capital. It is a chimera to suppose that there will be large increases in capital investment as a consequence of that repatriation.”

Yep. That is what happened last time. No reason to expect it to be any different this time.