"sweating assets"

TorgoX on 2002-05-09T04:15:12

Dear Log,

«Yet in reality the US is no more productive than many European economies. [...] The reason for this is that corporate America now no longer principally seeks to create value by building businesses over time through marshalling human capital, investment and innovation. Instead it tries to extract value by financial engineering and sweating assets in an increasingly feral form of capitalism.»

--"What Europe can teach Uncle Sam"