A CURIOUS QUESTION ANSWERED

David Goldman seems to have answered my question.  According to the Wikipedia article he gave us the link to, corporations are limited in the number of shares they can own in themselves.  The entry even says, "A corporation cannot own itself."  So that's that.  And I thought I had stumbled on another example of socialism growing in the womb of capitalism.  Now go back to writing your dissertation, David!  [What is it on, by the way?]