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Professor Aswath Damodaran explains why dividends and stock buybacks are the market's biggest risk

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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "Mr. Damodaran, who likes to be provocative, says with rates this low, traditional valuation metrics are distorted. Instead, the inability of companies to keep paying off their investors will cause the next downturn. 'This is the weakest link in this market,' Mr. Damodaran said in an interview. 'We know cash flows will go down. What we don’t know is what the market is pricing in.'"

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