The Queue Is a Clock: John Little’s 1961 Identity L = λW, a Housing Pile Measured in Months, and Why the Long-Term Equity Investor Divides Every Stock by Its Flow

Diagram of the identity L = λ × W with four worked examples: an inbox, a wafer fab, new US houses in January 2009 and the Airbus order book at end 2024

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The Queue Is a Clock: John Little’s 1961 Identity L = λW, a Housing Pile Measured in Months, and Why the Long-Term Equity Investor Divides Every Stock by Its Flow

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