Stocks and Flows
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Stocks and Flows
“Stock and flow” is an economic concept that writer Robin Sloan has adapted into a metaphor for media: “Flow is the feed. It’s the posts and the tweets. It’s the stream of daily and sub-daily updates that remind people you exist. Stock is the durable stuff. It’s the content you produce that’s as interesting in two months (or two years) as it is tod
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As I have written in previous posts, the are two economies, not one. One is the Flow Economy that produces goods and services. The other is the Balance Sheet Economy that stores wealth
The flow economy is dynamic; you can think of GDP accounts as the economy’s Profit and Loss (P&L) statement. It measures what we are doing, using metrics expressed in dollars per year like consumption, savings, investment, government spending, taxes, net exports, and GDP. Things expressed per unit of time measure speed, like miles per hour on y
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