…long leading indicators — corporate profits, housing, and real per capita consumption, summing up that “the housing sector is giving recessionary readings. Corporate profits adjusted for inventories are weakening, but…

…access. From the checkout aisle to the box office, American consumers are nickel-and-dimed by a system that has few checks on increasingly consolidated corporate power. As Roosevelt Institute suggests, policymakers could…

…reflect that. As usual, my focus is on the more forward looking components of the GDP release: real private residential fixed investment (housing) and corporate profits. The story in housing…

…AI — corporate profits, stock prices, and downstream consumer spending — are particularly strong. Also, American energy companies are making windfall profits from the closure of the Persian Gulf, which…

…examples . . .”Under FDR, the American federal government assumed new and powerful roles in the nation’s economy, in its corporate life, and in the health, welfare, and well-being of…

…the responses and will begin publishing them in April. The emphasis is on curbing corporate “greed” in all sectors of the healthcare industry. The actual question prompt for participants to…

…gains,” said Ethan Harris, co-head of global economics at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. “The U.S. corporate sector is in a lot better health than the overall economy. And until…

…They’ve almost always been wrong about that. But with regard to corporate taxes, it’s true. As Hassett notes in his piece, the top US corporate rate in 2010 was 35…

…near nonexistence with the result that what had been agents, say a plant superintendent, now reported to an executive suite at ‘Corporate’ where one-time agents were de facto principals. As…

…Romney’s plan merely calls for extending the Bush tax cuts, cutting the statutory corporate tax rate from 35% to 25%, and eliminating capital gains and dividends taxes only for those…