On 2/7/2011 1:49 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
> This stuff is circular and feeds on itself, so it's hard to identify a first cause. But financial assets were relatively minimal in the 1950s. And nonfin corps were transferring about 20% of internal funds to shareholders. Since 2000, it's more than three times that.
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> Why was there pressure for dereg and innovation?
Good question. See, this is why we need historians! I feel validated!
SA