# Prof. Aswath Damodaran on the trend of stock buybacks

1 Faculty News March 18, 2015 ![The New York Times Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_027320.jpg?itok=W8xBr66g)>

Excerpt from [The New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/18/business/dealbook/general-motors-stock-buyback-follows-a-worrying-trend.html?_r=0) -- "Still, the noted valuation expert [Aswath Damodaran](http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/aswath-damodaran) asserts that much good could come from share buybacks and that banning or regulating buybacks falls “squarely in the feel-good but do-bad economic policy realm.'"

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