> Increasing investment today will indeed increase production in the future - that's the whole point. So you agree that for the investment to be worth it (and

> Increasing investment today will indeed increase production in the future - that's the whole point. So you agree that for the investment to be worth it (and thus made), consumption in the future must increase (or at least appear that it will increase to the investor)? That was my point. > The production is either consumed, invested, spent on government or exported. I talked about money, not production. Money can be saved, or in today's world more likely, ran around in circles through the financial system, without ever causing more consumption to happen.