The tendency of earnings estimates to fall

Seth Ackerman SAckerman at FAIR.org
Tue Apr 3 13:50:33 PDT 2001


Doug Henwood wrote:


> U.S. corporate profitability peaked in late 96/early 97, and has been
> flat-to-down since. It makes you wonder where the alleged
> productivity boom is paying off.
. Well it paid off in the NIPA statistics, didn't it? Output per worker zoomed. So why didn't it show up in the profit rate? Accounting-wise, wouldn't it have to be because the output/capital ratio (aka "capital productivity) stagnated? Is that consistent with the data?

Seth



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