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Today I'm tweeting about @BichlerNitzan's buy-to-build indicator.

If you're not familiar, this is an indicator that quantifies the portion of 'investment' spent buying other corporations.

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Notice the scare quotes around 'investment'. To many people, 'investment' means to 'build new capacity'. Hence, governments are always chasing 'investment' dollars.

But here's the thing: 'investment' is purely about transferring property rights.
The word 'invest', @BichlerNitzan observe, has feudal origins. In feudal societies, 'investiture' was the "symbolic ceremony of transferring property rights from the lord to the vassal".

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