Why Capital is Overvalued

JayHecht at aol.com JayHecht at aol.com
Fri Mar 5 16:48:24 PST 1999


In a message dated 3/5/99 3:37:49 PM Central Standard Time, bhandari at phoenix.Princeton.EDU writes:

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The main point in the present context is that "assets" are overvalued

because of the labor theory of value. To say that capital flows here

because of unlimited investment possibilities flatly contradicts and is

incompatible with any labour theory of value. >>

You know behind every fundmental analysis lurks the LTV - any finance text has a whole chapter on operating leverage and unit labor costs. However, right now it is impossible to gain any short term insight from Marx about the OTC - the LTV will eventually re-assert itself, but right now the speculative hype dominates.

jason



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