But what if most firms are cooking the books to show higher reported earnings? Why would this wash out in the aggregate? There is also an interesting point by Akerlof and Shiller. It's not that reported earnings are cooked. They are real but based on a fictitious foundation. They rail against economists who insist that equity appreciation must be tracking real profit growth rather than real profit growth being an effect of a speculative rise in asset values. LR
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