The End of Easy Money: Bankruptcy Filings Pile Up at Fastest Rate since 2010, Wolf Street, Wolf Richter. t’s turning into a banner year for corporate bankruptcy filings. Easy Money…

…quickly mimicked by every other oil flak, the strategy was something Schmertz called “creative confrontation.” In his handbook for corporate PR, Goodbye to the Low Profile, Schmertz tells his colleagues the time…

…Moore, is corporate profits deflated by unit labor costs. We con’t have unit labor costs yet for Q2, but these have been rising sharply in this expansion. And corporate profits…

…tax code. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 allows AbbVie to pay an effective tax rate less than half the U.S. corporate tax rate of 21% and the…

…raise the corporate income tax to 28 percent. Biden would end corporate tax breaks for multimillion-dollar executive compensation. And he’d quadruple the tax that corporations pay when they buy back…

A large number of stockholders are supporting Costco’s most recent efforts. Costco shareholders on Thursday soundly rejected a conservative think tank’s proposal requesting a report on the risks of maintaining…

…from their recent (slight) peak during Q1 2024. Corporate profits for Q4 will not be reported for another month. Proprietors’ income typically turns simultaneously with or one quarter after corporate…

…under the control of the Fed or at least partially so, like interest rates, the yield curve, and real money supply. The non-financial long leading indicators are housing permits, corporate…

…prices and consumer prices averaged quarterly, vs. corporate profits (/2 for scale): With a lag of several quarters, once producer prices outstrip consumer prices, the YoY gains in corporate profits…

It’s been fashionable to beat up on blue states for their high taxes. But if taxes were the only reason people and companies decided where to locate, why are Boston,…