How is your stock account doing ?
no idea
I only look at it a few times a year
Apparently the stock market rally (since 2010) has been mostly funded by companies buying back their stock
Same thing happened we had a "holiday" on foreign profits in 2004 the companies did the exact same thing (buy back their stock and increase dividends)
It's the smartest thing a public company could do with an unexpected windfall
So public companies (corporate "people") will do great and the rest of us ( actual people) will pay for it (actually we'll just add it to the federal credit card)