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> The post author frequently compares flow variables (eg earnings, GDP) to stock variables (eg market cap). That’s not necessarily terrible, but the ratio is always sensitive to interest rates (because the stock variable discounts future values of the flow variable, and when rates are low the discounting has less of an effect).

This was an incredibly clear way to put it. I can't believe I haven't thought of it that way before! Thanks.



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