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t repatriated earnings should be spent on capital investment, R&D, M&A, and other pro-growth uses such as hiring, this was not ultimately the result: the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER} estimates? that $0.92 of every $1.00 brought back was used to return cash to shareholders ($0.79 for buybacks and $0.15 for dividends)’, and t

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omist at Northwestern University. Let's assume for a moment that he's right. The political consequences would be enormous. In his widely discussed National Bureau of Economic Research paper, "Is U.S. Economic Growth Over?" Gordon predicts a dark future of "epochal decline in growth from the U.S. record of the last 150 years." The

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