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Because these countries are keen to maintain their share in the world's biggest market, they often absorb the effect of a drop in the dollar by cutting their profits rather than raise prices.
Top companies must effectively manage exposure to climate risk in order to generate higher profits and ensure more stable earnings.
But trying to reduce it now will be a net burden on future generations: income will be lowered immediately, profits will fall, pension funds will be diminished, investment projects will be canceled or postponed, and houses, hospitals, and schools will not be built.
Standard economic theory tells us that excessive profits are the direct result of concentrated ownership.
As long as banks can make a profit from trading, they will continue to expand derivatives in excess of any legitimate hedging demands from non-banks, creating redundant products whose only function is to make profits for their inventors and sellers.
With prices far in excess of the cost of production, there are, for example, huge profits to be gained by persuading pharmacies, hospitals, or doctors to shift sales to your products.
But unbalanced intellectual-property regimes result in inefficiencies – including monopoly profits and a failure to maximize the use of knowledge – that impede the pace of innovation.
Automation is bound to increase profits, because machines that make human labor redundant require no wages and only minimal investment in maintenance.
Indeed, the impact of real exchange-rate depreciation on growth is likely to be short-lived unless increased corporate profits in the export sector lead to higher household consumption and investment.
Official statistics show a slowdown in real growth in the old manufacturing and construction-based economy, reflected in declining corporate profits, rising defaults, and an increase in non-performing loans in poorer-performing cities and regions.
Smart households and entrepreneurs could take profits and reduce their debts.
They preferred less competition in credit markets not out of concern for the unwitting farmers, but in order to defend powerful lenders’ profits.
In the late 1980s, the leading industrialized countries – the United States, Europe, and Japan – began to push for stronger patent regimes that would boost their own pharmaceutical companies’ profits.
Chinese leaders value the lopsided trade relationship with India – exports are more than five times higher than imports – as a strategic weapon to undercut its rival’s manufacturing base while reaping handsome profits.
These companies minimize their tax liabilities by registering and declaring their profits in a low-tax country, despite doing most of their business elsewhere.
In the United States, in particular, the financial sector’s structure prior to the recent crisis emphasized the efficient generation of huge profits – and succeeded for more than a decade.
In other words, undertaking socially responsible activities boosts profits.
If micro-financiers are making profits off the poor, it must be because they are bilking them.
In fact, since 1970, aggregate labor compensation (wages plus fringe benefits) has grown only a little more slowly than aggregate profits have, and average wage growth at the bottom of the income scale has not slowed relative to the “middle class.”
Second, Trump is assuming that supply-side measures to boost after-tax corporate profits will raise incomes and create jobs.
Investors congratulated themselves on the profits they had earned from their vertiginously priced Internet stocks.
Fair value accounting has multiplied opportunities for imaginary earnings, such as Skilling’s profits on gas trading.
Traders need not wait to see when or whether the profits materialize.
The essential story of the period from 2003 through 2007 is that banks announced large profits and paid a substantial share of them to their traders and senior employees.
The essential story of the eurozone crisis is that banks in France and Germany reported profits on money they had lent to southern Europe and passed the bad loans to the European Central Bank.
For example, pharmaceutical companies have insisted that the TPP force all countries to grant 12-year patents on prescription drugs – increasing their profits while delaying competition from cheaper generic versions.
The TPP’s most controversial provision, if adopted, would allow private corporations to sue foreign governments for adopting policies that adversely affect their expected profits.
This, then, is the future that the TPP holds out: a kind of Potemkin democracy, in which citizens are free to choose their flags and holidays but cannot afford to enact any laws that might reduce international investors’ profits.
Profits for drug traffickers downstream will be almost 20 times that amount.
In the textiles industry, profits declined for the first time in ten years in 2008.
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