…no good. We know which half! But stent-makers and other providers have turned this into a big business. – Our drug companies enjoy 20% profit margins. – Our device-makers boast…

…quickly can firms hire new workers to maintain profit rates as real wages rise with productivity stalled? Capital investment will have to subside to maintain profit rates. We will see…

I have written that the Dow will orbit around the 16,800 level and not go much higher from there. My view is based on Effective Demand causing profit rates to…

…the profit-rate equation I have posted before. (link) Profit rate = (Productivity – Real compensation) * Total labor hours/Capital stock Modified Profit rate = Capital share of income * Total…

US technology giant Apple has reported the biggest quarterly profit ever made by a public company. Apple reported a net profit of $18bn (£11.8bn) in its fiscal first quarter, which…

To add to this attention getter, 70% of all the students who defaulted in 2013 went to non-traditional schools or “for-profit” schools. Of students who graduated from traditional schools and…

…recipient of his campaign’s listserve notices, I received an email message that discusses a bill he recently introduced in the Senate that would end for-profit prisons. I had heard about…

…from peaked profit rates and vulnerable from already having hit the effective demand limit. China is showing weakness and has also been vulnerable to the effective demand limit of the…

…going to shed a tear that for profit insurers like United Health just are not having the success in extracting huge rents from PPACA. Because those rents/profits were not adding…

…is governed by profits. The ability to forecast the effective demand limit upon profit cycles has huge value for banks and their investment cycles. The model above is worth lots…