…the PBM, pharmacies, an insurer, and providers. With this market power, PBMs can ensure that patients and pharmacies purchase the drugs that allow them to maximize profits — something the…

…the generous Cost Sharing Reduction (CSR) assistance provided to Silver enrollees at that income level…and enrollees who earn more than 400% FPL are losing access to any federal tax credits whatsoever, so most* (but not all)…

…the profit-pursuing decision processes of firms, as Robert Prasch pointed out not too long ago: For a profit-maximizing firm pursuing a reduction in its costs, it is equally “efficient” to…

…at for-profit colleges like Full Sail Uniersity …. Weeks later… Romney hailed the ‘advent of for-profit institutions of higher learning’ for providing competition with public and private universities. He again…

I hesitate to excerpt from this because it says it all so well and so briefly. But: …the more taxes the US government collects, the more money it loses. When…

…profit, not art, not politics, not information. Just profit. To which I, a dog lover of the first magnitude, and someone who near-literally feels the physical pain of an abused…

…annual domestic profit and wage/salary growth spanning 1981 Q1 to 2011 Q1. The series are deflated by the GDP price index. Real domestic profit growth has been robust, peaking at…

by Bruce Webb Big Banks Repay: 15% interest earned The profits, collected from eight of the biggest banks that have fully repaid their obligations to the government, come to about…

…economy is moving within the constraint of the effective demand limit as firms reach for profits along the profit maximization line. The capacity utilization rate will stay steady or decrease…

…profit rates stop rising, they stop increasing utilization of labor and capital. If profit rates stop increasing before full employment, well… we just won’t reach full employment now, will we?…