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Fortune Magazine on Corporate Pension Plans

Justin Fox thinks “corporate pensions are an unstable, unfair and economically perverse means of paying for retirement”: This phenomenon, along with the more dramatic cases of companies going bankrupt and…

Bowyer’s Profits Per Job Measure: Do Two Wrongs Make

…profits by restricting yourself to corporate profits. Either (a) divide corporate profits by corporate employment, or (b) divide total profits by private employment. Corporate profits divided by a measures of…

Explaining the Rise in Corporate Profits

The Economist writes about the increasing share of national income that is being earned in the form of corporate profits: Last year, America’s after-tax profits rose to their highest as…

Can the SEC prohibit publicly-traded corporations from making political expenditures (and, eventually, direct campaign contributions) unless the corporation first gets approval from a majority of shareholders?

…that prohibit corporations from making direct campaign contributions to candidates and political parties. In Citizens United, the court killed statutory bars to corporate and union political so-called-independent expenditures, and, in…

Corporate Profits

…owners and banks) as interest, not to shareholders as profits. Indirect taxes aren’t negligible—some of the value added which doesn’t go to employees goes to the IRS. Finally “corporate”—a large…