Comments for The Good News and Bad News on the Stock Market at http://www.cepr.net , comment 1 to 3 out of 3 comments http://www.cepr.net Wed, 22 May 2013 04:14:03 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/cepr-blog/the-good-news-and-bad-news-on-the-stock-market#comment-10703 [url=http://www.ptwatches.com] Replica Audemars Piguet [/url]I found so many interesting stuff here, keep up the good work. - Amber Sharp Fri, 12 Aug 2011 20:22:10 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/cepr-blog/the-good-news-and-bad-news-on-the-stock-market#comment-10698 Dean Baker is always a great read and always a roadsign. However steering an argument by analogy through turbulent waters is tricky. The after-tax comparisons between very diverse markets may cloud the effect of the tax impositions on the prevalent market components of each performing sector. Couldn't the skew be significant? - marco mingarelli Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:56:21 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/cepr-blog/the-good-news-and-bad-news-on-the-stock-market#comment-10577 This is a fascinating comment on the market. Corporate profits are assured in essence by the weakness of labor and high unemployment. But doesn't labor enter into the profits equation in two ways? Labor is a cost, but labor also buys the goods and services. If productivity grows faster than wages, isn't there a possibility of an underconsumptionist recession/depression that would undermine profits? And isn't the worldwide push to austerity helping move us along that path?Demand has to come from somewhere and I am not sure so called emerging markets will be up to the task if their major US and European consumers are so weak and if even Asia may be faltering. So perhaps there is some reason why wealthy stockholders might be apprehensive. - john buell Tue, 09 Aug 2011 11:34:57 +0100