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    Manic Comments

    July 3, 2026

    From FT, Alphaville, July 3, 20206 Quoting the front page of the monthly market update written by Joachim Klement and Francisca Reis, of [UK investment bank] Panmure Liberum … “In 1929, the cyclically-adjusted P/E-ratio (CAPE) of the S&P 500 reached 32.6x according to Prof. Robert Shiller’s data. This was 1.8 standard deviations above trend at […]

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    The Problem of Unpaid Work?

    June 15, 2026

    Just a thought … Carl Benedikt Frey [Financial Times this morning] has me thinking.  How unwise of him! An economy is the aggregate of all the work we want done.   It is not simply what we measure.  This is not revelatory, but it is becoming more important to think about the divergence between the […]

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    Sissy Wants to Know. Thanks.

    June 10, 2026

    Quick question:  I had always assumed that rising productivity implied rising wages.  Am I right? Yes, I know about the great divide since the end of the 1970s.  Productivity carried on upwards.  Wages rose, but as much.  So the two no longer track in that happy coincidence that economist like to think as being inevitable. […]

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