…awash in nearly one quadrillion of cheap capital by end of decade, according to new Bain & Company report Their takeaways include: The capital glut will be accompanied by persistently…

…an “integrated” rate of 50.8%. The report claims that such a rate “discourages capital investment, particularly in the corporate sector, reducing capital formation and, ultimately, living standards.” Richard Rubin, Corporate…

…and his papa’s influential and rich partners) or setting up a venture capital fund (like Romney’s Bain Capital). These connections ultimately permit the wealthy to mingle in a monied society…

…tighten their spending or are forced to tighten their spending. Capital sees this trouble before the general public and changes their behavior. Capital starts saving money instead of using it…

…of inefficient investing in China, talks about the ability of social capital to absorb capital investment. Social capital refers to the institutions of business and society, as well as the…

…Investment. There is no measure labeled “Investment” in the IMAs. So one side of the much-ballyhooed Saving = Investment accounting identity…simply doesn’t exist. The IMA’s “Capital Formation” is very similar,…

…y is output per worker and k is capital per worker. The capital stock adjusts so that the after-tax marginal product of capital equals the exogenously given world interest rate…

…significant. To quote Simon Kuznets, the man who led the creation of the NIPAs in the 1930s, “capital formation…represents the real savings of the nation.” (Capital in the American Economy,…

…time as capital can utilize it. (Hence the correctness of the theory of surplus population and surplus capital.) It is equally a tendency of capital to make human labour (relatively) superfluous, so…

…Bain Capital wanted to lend money to GM and Chrysler for managed bankruptcies. Beverly mentioned Bain Capital instead of Bain Consulting in the title. Also read Beverly’s responses BREAKING NEWS:…