…surplus capital in those two earlier fragments, as well as in his discussions in Capital of the general law of capitalist accumulation and the internal contradictions of the law of the tendency…

…capital that “expose the basis of overproduction, the fundamental contradiction of developed capital.” Nicolaus qualified what Marx meant by overproduction to be “[not] simply ‘excess inventory’; rather, he means excess productive…

…sale of the stock is reported as a capital gain. Thus what is really current compensation income is re-characterized, through the reinsurer “conduit” scam, as a deferred capital gain. So…

…span than more traditional capital equipment. Business computers have a life span of only about 2 years and communication equipment has a similar life span. In contrast, traditional capital equipment…

by Linda Beale crossposted with Ataxingmatter Dealing with the Sunset of the Bush Tax Cuts (Part V in a series)–dividends at capital gains rate IN this series, i’ve been discussing…

…for a rich nation and is 5% overall world wide. Produced capital accounts for only 18% world wide. 77% of wealth creation is from “intangible capital”. Intangible capital is the…

…was a very strong and relatively stable trend growth rate for both productivity and real capital stock per employee. But in the 1980s economic cycle growth in the real capital…

…and price. This means that more capital implies more employment and the same capital employment ratio. Because of the excess supply of labor, output is proportional to capital. First assume…

…would have reduced labor’s disadvantage against capital. So, I would say… definitely yes. A rule for a target Fed rate should include capacity utilization or another measure of capital utilization….

I track an estimation of consumption by capital income through the NIPA numbers and labor’s income share. Changes in this estimation give insights into how well capital income is doing….