Are Stock Buybacks Driving Wealth Inequality?

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It’s not lost on me that we’re posting this on a day where the S&P 500 trades above 3100 for the first time…

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Ben Hunt joins Michael Batnick and Downtown Josh Brown at The Compound to explain what he’s so angry about – he sees wealth inequality as being driven by hijacked narratives about capitalism, stock buybacks, central banks and the managerial overclass orchestrating it all.

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