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r > g ?

Rate of return is greater than growth?

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Wed Apr 30th, 2014 at 01:13:53 PM EST
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Rate of return on capital is greater than growth means that capital's share of income increases with time. This is, of course, unsustainable in the long run.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Apr 30th, 2014 at 01:15:06 PM EST
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thanks

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Wed Apr 30th, 2014 at 02:03:31 PM EST
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