The EPS Ghost Growth Mandate Funding the Top 📈📉

Investigative look into how stock buybacks are used as an accounting gimmick to trigger executive bonuses. While worker pay remains flat, corporations use cash reserves to shrink their share count, artificially inflating Earnings Per Share (EPS) metrics. This financial engineering allows CEOs to hit performance targets and unlock massive payouts without actually growing the business or improving productivity. We expose the 1980s policy shift that turned corporate leaders into short-term stock manipulators at the expense of long-term stability and fair wages. Understand how the metric used to judge success is being gamed against you and the entire working class today.