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The Best Investment Writing Volume 5: Selected Writing from Prominent Investors and Authors

The Meb Faber Show - Better Investing

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The Fade Rate for Business Returns on Capital Has Changed

Intangible assets such as brands, patents and technological nohow are well understood to be of greater import in the modern world. The average s m p 500 company spends twice as much r and d as a percentage of sales as 25 years ago. They would not do this if theye were not compelling business reasons to spend so much more money. We can look for the liquidity driven market place effect, for inter operability and for huge motes of cumulative r and d - likely indicators digital age value drivers are present.

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