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Re:Is the world economy entering a wage-price spiral? by magicalist on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @02:47PM (#28921867)
> So if companies are hoarding profits that would go to workers, then this would be reflected in rising shareholder equity, so if employees invest their wages in stocks, the productivity-compensation gap is lessened

Unless the company is paying dividends (and the distribution is proportional to earnings), we can't assume that a company "hoarding profits" would have a correlated stock price.

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Re:Is the world economy entering a wage-price spiral? by diordiderot on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @05:03AM (#28928435)
Cash holdings and investment into physical capital are assets that should reflect in share price, no?
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