It doesn’t, the buyed back stocks belong to the company which belongs to the remaining shareholders

Why should a company buy back “ownership” for itself?

It’s usually just to make the stock price going up without doing anything real to augment it, so the top management hits their bonus triggers and/or their stock options become more valuable.

So it’s them enriching itself and the owners pay the bill for it.

For the Shareholders it usually doesn’t create any real value like R&D Investment or giving it back through dividends would do.

And we’ve seen it in the US like with the Airlines that the companies blew all their profits for Stock Buybacks, and then immediately demanded for a bailout when business became tougher

No. My Travelcard loaded on the Navigo Easy card worked on all my Paris Visits on Bus/Tram/Metro/RER

They are investing in their Public Transport Network like no one else (Grand Paris Express). I’m quite jealous in Germany with our investment brake morons in politics.

Here a short video mentioning the investments and upgrades they are undertaking right now,

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ot5vp6FZ_Bg&pp=ygUUSURGIG1vYmlsaXRlcyByZXNlYXU%3D

And here you can see how much a new tram line construction is also upgrading the environment surrounding it, and making it more liveable (they’re also adding cycle lanes and making the spaces more pedestrian friendly)

https://youtu.be/Z06FduDShx0

Compare that to big cities in Germany where a bit/nothing is really happening. Especially not with our new dumb conservative government

Impounding the ship until it’s insured?

Giving Ukraine a big weapons package for every bullshit interference they do, and make it clear why they are getting it. Supporting Guerilla Groups in Russia which are blowing up infrastructure, etc…

This bullshit should be banned. Invest the money in R&D instead, make some reserves or pay a dividend.

Yes, the same with a single public health insurance. Directly after he became Minister, the Lobby Group of the Private Health Insurances invited him, and he immediately flipped and sang praises on them.

https://www.pkv.de/verband/presse/meldungen/lauterbach-pkv-ist-ein-unverzichtbarer-bestandteil-der-versorgung/

For some reason he is still immensely popular. I never got it. He fucked up the German Healthcare System in the first place, and was in the board of one of the shittiest for profit operators for years. (Which also famously tried to circumvent the minimum wage in Germany)

These fines are the definition of “Fuck around and find out”

The only concerning thing is that these companies think they stand above the laws

Yes

Who cares what the PiS Idiot without a majority in his own country says

Lol, the Audacity to complain about “extraterritorial regulations that stifle their innovation”
Those morons should be banned until they comply and pay up or fined much much more the next time, for them thinking they stand above the laws of foreign sovereign states.

Lol, nice try.

Also nearly no one pays Sticker Prices in the US.

They have to put a ridiculous price tag on it, in order for the Pharmacy Benefit Managers of the insurance companies to “negotiate” a “discount” (and for this service they earn a commission)

https://www.statnews.com/2024/08/12/some-inconvenient-truths-about-pharmacy-benefit-managers/

sadly Germany has fucked the pharma market over

What are you talking about?

Do you mean Lauterbachs stupid secret prices, which wasn’t totally a corrupt gift in exchange of Eli Lilly promising to build a plant in Germany?

https://www.pharmazeutische-zeitung.de/geheime-preise-auf-druck-von-eli-lilly-150708/

That train has left the station.

They can pound sand

No, in Spain and France they have now too some Mandatory Reservation Regional Services.

And their shitty low cost subsidiaries also don’t participate in Interrail

Like I’ve said, it’s a disease and it seems contagious

Unless you travel to countries in which the railways suffer from a disease that makes them think they are Airlines. (Italy, Spain, France) They take every joy out of it, with the mandatory reservation bullshit (I mean, the upcharge itself is annoying, but what really makes my blood boil is that you need to reserve every train 2-4 weeks in advance)

Unfortunately we can’t throw them out thanks to the Slovakians voting again for the corrupt asshole Fico, just when the Polish got rid of the PiSs-Party.

Can we please designate them as unconstitutional organisations and ban them from operating in the EU?