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Equity preference by investors as seen through the asset growth effect is a strong predictor of future stock market returns. In examining the capital cycle of equity preference, we can see a very strong correlation with 10-year future returns in the S&P 500. The outlook at present suggests single-digit returns in the next decade. By Joseph Noko   *** Capital Cycles and the Asset Growth Effect  High returns on invested capital (ROIC) invite capital and new investment, bidding up asset prices to euphoric valuations while eventually creating excess capacity, plunging economic earnings below the cost of capital, sending a market lurching forward to what Joseph SchumpeterRead More →

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*** If there is a “deficit myth”, Stephanie Kelton is bent on exposing it. There is a puritanical shame that accompanies talk of a country’s deficit, the putrid stench of moral decay wafts through the air, driving governments to violent self-lacerations by way of swingeing spending cuts. Kelton’s book, The Deficit Myth, is a work of popular economics whose mission is to introduce the public to modern monetary theory (MMT) and lift the shame around the deficit myth through a paradigm shift in the way the public thinks about it, while offering up a promise of a Prometheus unbound: a government whose fiscal space andRead More →

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In a world awash with information, where the possession of a broad range of skills and knowledge gives the investor and businessperson an edge in the marketplace, knowing how to learn is perhaps the most neglected of skills. This is your ultimate guide to learning hard skills and mastering knowledge quickly. Read More →