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Old 06-27-2016, 05:12 PM   #2096 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by aerohead View Post
Automakers have a legal,fiduciary responsibility to pay the highest dividend to the shareholder.Selling EVs at a loss is a way to ultimately make profits.
Your retired kindergarten teacher's pension fund income likely comes from profits derived by predatory automotive and oil corporate practices.
Ok, last off topic post here, sorry.

The "legal fiduciary responsibility to maximize shareholder profit" thing seems to have been made up in the 1970's, and doesn't really exist:
http://evonomics.com/maximizing-shar...-dumbest-idea/

Sam
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