I posted this graph yesterday which has 234 data points from 1954 to 2016… The graph implies that as profit rates come easier over the nominal cost of money the…

…company was limited to 3% profit,. If you made more than that, you kicked into the program a ratio of those profits. The higher the profit, the more you kicked…

…of hundreds of millions of state dollars owed them while turning a blind eye to the abject failures of for-profit charter schools in which ‘management companies’ rip off taxpayer dollars…

…booked over $50 billion in profit on the lending system and this has increased in more recent years. What is disturbing is White House Budget data showing a profit being…

…for representing this problem is the profit landscape, understood to be nonconvex in the sense that fitness landscapes are in evolutionary theory. Firms face three types of challenges, optimizing with…

…breaking even or showing a relatively small profit or loss. According to the FY 2017 10-K report (p. 17), if one looks solely at “controllable” costs and income (i.e., excluding…

…there is one student loan lender I have heard repeated complaints about, it is Navient. The Student Lending Office also investigated and sued for-profit education company Corinthian Colleges. Denouncing the…

…says that “Trump is not Putin’s Puppet,” postulating that he has parted company with Russian policy when there is profit to be made. But that implies that he has been…

…profit and non-profit institutions to which there is no escape unless disabled or dead. The blackness to this show comes when the indebted contestants turn to answering zany questions taken…

…tacking them on as a presumably incidental afterthought — in the economic jargon, an “externality.” Uncompensated overhead costs are not external to the profit-pursuing decision processes of firms, as Robert…