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Because it's--repurchasing my shares,
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if they do it for everybody, doesn't mean anything.
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I'm getting--we're all lowering--
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all of our shares are going down by the same amount.
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So, that's the basic insight in Modigliani and Miller,
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that share repurchase and dividend are really interchangeable;
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it's just all a conceptual difference.
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This kind of took people by surprise.
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It's kind of--it should be obvious, I'm making it so simple.
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I could write some mathematics to try and--
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but I think it's so simple and obvious.
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You just have to keep remembering that all that matters for a company--