(*) Keynes (1936) , p. 288, wrote: a windfall gain will accrue only to those entrepreneurs who own products (read: assets); the inevitable price instability, due to change, directs a de facto windfall of wealth into the laps of the lucky ones (bolds introduced)!

(**) The value of assets in a shipping company is used for obtaining a loan, and securing it; it is on them that an insurance cover/claim is based. The values will perhaps determine the sale price, the scrap money, the depreciation etc. Certain indices are also based on them

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