A futures market has a prediction going out years into the future of what every financial variable will be doing, so you can see the future in a sense through the futures prices.
The LTV formula, when used correctly, can be a good tactical tool for monitoring and comparing like-minded variablemarket programs, especially across channels.
Any time government tries to force one variable within a free market to a certain value or to move in a certain direction, it destabilizes every other variable.