…exchange reserves are managed with the operational goals of safety, liquidity and profit,” Xinhua quoted the central bank official as saying. The People’s Bank does not disclose the composition of…

…are backed by real, existing profits. As it turns out, the jobs created over the last several years are backed by record levels of corporate profit. From 2001 to 2005,…

…then the increases in oil prices and wage rates of the past year or two should be reflected in sharply lower profit margins, as the article mentions. Yet corporate profits…

…old savings. Dotcoms were spending down pension-plan money mediated through venture-capital firms, and they weren’t creating new profit through each employee hired. Corporate profits per payroll job in 1998 were…

…small profit would, presumably, not be profitable if it maintained the same revenue stream and expenses plus having to essentially buy back half the business from the government. That would…

…profits in national income to rise during the early stages of a technological revolution, but then those extra profits tend to be competed away. Higher profits tempt firms to cut…

…tax advisors are busily changing their tunes arguing that the distribution division creates very little profit whereas the manufacturing division creates most of the profit so as to increase their…

…tax incentive to export. But, under current law, outsourcing makes it easier to move the extra profit in a multinational — which, in this context, most would view as profit…

…profit though. Any offshore entity will probably have cash in two currencies – one (smaller) part will be in local currency to fund local operations while the other (larger) part…

…become a major profit center for the US Federal Government. It would be socialism for the US Federal Government to have a major profit center. Instead it will be privatized…