# Prof. Aswath Damodaran's blog post about stock buybacks is spotlighted

1 Faculty News September 24, 2014>

Excerpt from [Bloomberg View](http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-09-24/the-truth-about-buybacks-ritholtz-chart) -- "Today's chart comes from a very interesting article on stock buybacks from [Aswath Damodaran](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/aswath-damodaran), a professor at New York University. He writes: This has been a big year for stock buybacks, continuing a return to a trend that started more than two decades ago and was broken only briefly by the crisis in 2008."

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