…is called profit predestination. This pseudo-economic theory fails for myriad reasons.  First, no company is morally entitled to a predetermined level of profits. If the source of a company’s profits…

…And banks have proven to be efficient at extracting bail-outs when their judgement leads to insolvency. Recently, the bankruptcy of for-profit Steward Health Care closed several hospitals in Massachusetts, causing…

“Specialty Generic Drugs: A Growing Profit Center for Vertically Integrated Pharmacy Benefit Managers,” Federal Trade Commission A brief post or commentary on Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs). For the Big 3…

Financial Times takes a look at the question of how high profit margins are obtained in a high unemployment and high debt economy: The key to the first question is…

…as profit rates were rising after the crisis. They generate a profit which is less than the market average for profit rates. When profit rates revert back to the mean,…

By way of a video from Boom Bust (the best show for economics news), Barclays says that the 60 basis point drop in corporate profit margins in the S&P500 over…

…business cycle. The Fed should not be raising rates at this point in the business cycle. When to Normalize in Theory In the model, aggregate profit rates have a somewhat…

There is this fixed quantity of whatever it is and if you get more, I get less. One man’s profit is another’s loss. This dogma was already advanced by some…

…their own managed care, non-profit PPO (which ultimately they did not see to completion), in the late 1980s, health care insurance was still non profit. At that time ‘commercial insurers’…

…tax profits don’t jump — that the short term effect of the tax cut on pre tax profits is zero. I think this is assumption is reasonable. For the small…