Periodically I present updated information about consumption from capital and labor income. Using the NIPA accounts and labor share, I can separate consumption by capital and labor. Total consumption is…

…refrains from accumulating foreign assets during the episodes of large capital inflows, as well as during periods of abundant international liquidity. The capital inflows also raise the probability of a…

…The standard interpretation of “r” is that it refers to the ratio of total capital income to total capital. A lot of this r is not called interest at all…

…disproportion between the need for circulating capital and the need for fixed capital, “when sometimes too little, then again too much-circulating capital is transformed into fixed capital.” And there you…

We keep hearing from the conservatives-libertarian that we need lower taxes on capital gains and dividends to encourage capital spending or investments. But when I look at the record of…

…the right inventory at the right time cuts cost. One last item, Labor Input Adds Value. Sunday thought: It’s Still Capital vs. Labor, Stupid Robert Reich But the gap continues…

…2010 returns show that the Romneys have a shell corporation in the tax haven of Bermuda into which they apparently were funneling income from overseas Bain investments, and that one…

…paid only 13.9% on $21.6 million of income, benefitting enormously from the low preferential capital gains rate of 15% that he paid on his returns from his investment of capital….

…just the 2011 return in April. But not any back returns. (That’d tell us more about his gains at Bain Capital than he probably wants us to know.) What are…

…valued at the purchase price. This bypasses capital gains. Since Gates’ Microsoft stock was originally purchased for approximately $50,000, and is now worth billions, the value of each dollar’s worth…