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The chart shows net corporate dividends divided by GDP.
The exponential trend channel implies that dividends will exceed GDP at some point in the distant future. Good luck on that theory!
Urban Dictionary: That Dog Don't Hunt
An obviously faulty endeavor; also as ~ /won't hunt/, predictive of failure.
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The exponential trend will work forward in time no better than it worked backward in time.
ReplyDeleteIt isn't an opinion. It is a mathematical certainty.
We might be able to sneak back into the channel temporarily, but it is absolutely impossible for us to remain there permanently.
ReplyDeleteAll exponential trends fail eventually. This one has already failed once. Over the long-term, it must continue to fail.
That said, there's nothing stopping it from staying elevated at 5% or so.
Then again, there's also nothing stopping it from returning to the median at some point (or worse).
The latter could be seriously disappointing to today's stock market investors.
"..implies that dividends will exceed GDP at some point in the distant future."
ReplyDeleteThey will and you're going to like it Prosperity Illusion boy.
Fatboy,
ReplyDeleteI'm not going to accept that claim unless you follow it up with a Mwuhahaha. ;)