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What U.S. CEOs Should Do with the Money from Corporate Tax Cuts

Harvard Business Review

The cost of capital is at historic lows, averaging below 6% for most large U.S. Indeed, for most companies, the value of accelerating growth greatly exceeds the value of returning capital to shareholders. The intrinsic value of a company with growing cash flows doubles every time the discount rate is cut in half.

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Why Those Guys Won the Economics Nobels

Harvard Business Review

Lars’s guys are irrational in a level-headed way, and Bob Shiller’s guys are irrational in a way that is subject to these social fads and fashions. The capital asset pricing model was supposed to allow companies to calculate their cost of capital in a consistent way. You have to say where it is exactly.

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