# Professor Lawrence White discusses Donald Trump's stock holdings

1 Faculty News September 15, 2016 ![PolitiFact logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030740.jpg?itok=AksI8GU5)>

Excerpt from [Politifact](http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2016/sep/15/donald-trump-really-not-invested-stock-market/) -- "'These are publicly traded companies,' said [Lawrence White](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/lawrence-white), an economist at New York University’s Stern School of Business. 'If Mr. Trump received a dividend payment, then he must have owned shares of stock in that company -- that is, he was invested in the stock market.'"

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