2016 Postmortem

No, CEO's don't get higher stock prices by outsourcing labor. As a professional trader I can help you out here. Stocks go higher based on top line growth, not bottom line. Cutting costs is bottom line growth and it does not drive stock prices higher. I can cite 1000's of stocks that have increased earnings over the last decade through cost cutting and their stocks have tanked. I can also show you 1000's of stocks whose bottom line is awful yet their stocks have gone vertical because they are growing their top line i.e revenues and sales. So no, your argument yet again makes absolutely no sense.

Basically because this strategy of outsourcing doesn't always work, it discounts the fact that CEOs make a lot from doing it?

I am guessing because he can cite 1000 companies that have terrible stock that outsource, then that means the argument that CEOs get rich off cheap labor is false?