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That should have become obvious a decade ago, when the systemic vulnerabilities of financial markets, with their single-minded focus on profit maximization, were laid bare.
At 15%, America’s tax rates on dividends and capital gains are at historic lows, while the profit share of national income is at an all-time high.
Instead, Apple charges ASI a symbolic fee for allowing it to profit from Apple’s IP rights, for which it pays a tiny tax to the IRS.
With its rate of 33%, France has one of the highest profit taxes on corporations in Europe.
France could afford to reduce its profit tax rate to 25%, as Macron has proposed, without losing significant tax revenues.
Public money is being used to boost private profit and bail out a failing industry.
Produced on an appropriate scale, a kit should cost about $20,000, including distribution costs and a profit margin.
The newspaper published their responses under the heading: “Is Honesty for Suckers?”Cynics would say that nothing has changed in the last 40 years, and nothing will change, because in business, all talk of ethics is intended only to camouflage the ultimate aim: profit maximization.
Yet Volkswagen’s cheating is odd, because, even – or especially – by the standard of profit maximization, it was an extraordinarily reckless gamble.
Such efforts at redefining capitalism recognize that business must look beyond profit and loss to maintain public support for a market economy.
Since abandoning guidance and quarterly profit reporting, the company has worked hard to prioritize long-term thinking.
When capital moves into a particular country, its currency appreciates, cooling off the export sector sufficiently to compensate for the booming domestically-oriented sectors that profit from the availability of foreign credit.
Indeed, in Kismayo, Kenyan officials have reverted to their default occupation – the pursuit of private profit.
Indeed, from this standpoint, there is no contradiction between profit maximization and the common good.
The pursuit of profit itself is a socially beneficial goal.
In short, the real conflict is not between profit maximization and social responsibility, but rather between short- and long-term thinking.
And the recent “Windrush” scandal over the government’s poor treatment of Caribbean-born legal residents has reprised the illiberal legacy of May’s previous tenure at the Home Office.But equally insidious has been the government’s embrace of “Britain First” mercantilism, under which arms sales to Saudi Arabia are not a matter for caution, but rather an opportunity for profit.
But equally insidious has been the government’s embrace of “Britain First” mercantilism, under which arms sales to Saudi Arabia are not a matter for caution, but rather an opportunity for profit.
The problem is that entry into any market depends on the perceived opportunities for profit from new initiatives at a particular point in time.
Business is motivated by profit; it is not designed to safeguard universal principles.
And, third, laws intended to protect private information should be reevaluated to ensure that IT companies are unable to profit from exploiting and manipulating it.
If voters want to limit the cross-border movement of goods, services, and people, companies will have to adopt a new model that builds in more redundancy within borders; and investors will need to look for firms that can profit with minimal border crossings, or that can still generate a profit despite increased protectionist friction.
Is it moral, critics asked, to profit so much from providing services that alleviate poverty?
Both activities, after all, are financed by investors looking for returns on their capital and motivated more by profit than compassion.
Add a $5 profit margin, and the oil-supply curve now has a long, near-horizontal segment in the range of about $60-75 per barrel.
Given the potential of financial incentives to skew the design and results of safety tests, keeping the profit motive out of the development and decision-making processes will encourage balanced assessments.
In the US, polarization is not an objective reflection of given cultural differences; it has at least partly been a conscious elite project to divide the country for political advantage and sometimes even personal profit.
My audience included business leaders who hope to profit from cap-and-trade policies and from subsidies for renewable energy and “green” jobs.
It is claimed that government, working together with business, will create “a new energy economy,” that the businesses involved will profit, and that everyone will be better off.
Downward adjustments in profit expectations for corporations and hence for stocks may not reverse quickly; consumer confidence may decline another notch.
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