Talk:Returns (economics)

Profit and Interest
And Now I am going to do both profit and interest because that is what Smith and Ricardo actually did. They could never seem to make up their alleged minds as to whether money is "capital" or just "money". But they do a very good job of using the word "stock" as opposed to money or capital. Stock is _ALWAYS_ "capital stock" as there is no "wages stock" or "rent stock". Henry George latter takes the position that it makes no difference and he refers to the return to money or stock as "interest" and totally drops the word profit except in an accounting sense having nothing to do with distinct returns to factors of production.--The Trucker (talk) 03:28, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Graph of returns
Why did we choose a 20% annual interest rate for the chart? That seems unusually high, such as might exist in times of high inflation. 5% or even 7% would seem more typical. The caption should note that the graph does not include taxes and other costs nor does it include inflation as a factor. ·:· Will Beback ·:· 01:06, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Long Term Historical Charts
Return to Labor

Return to Capital

Return to Land

(as percentage of total) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.183.140.205 (talk) 23:16, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

Dr. Neely's comment on this article
Dr. Neely has reviewed this Wikipedia page, and provided us with the following comments to improve its quality:

"Give an example of interest. I don't think that I get the point of the Adam Smith quote. Lengthy quotes from the Wealth of Nations aren't very useful to most wikipedia readers.

The article would be better if it were more to the point with definitions and brief examples."

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 * Reference : Lahaye, Jerome & Neely, Christopher J., 2014. "The role of jumps in volatility spillovers in foreign exchange markets: meteor shower and heat waves revisited," Working Papers 2014-34, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

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