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In that tradition, the economist Milton Friedman wrote, in his 1962 book Capitalism and Freedom : “there is one and only one social responsibility of business – to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.”
This capital does not finance investments or fuel economic growth; its sole purpose is to reap enormous but unpredictable profits for a select few.
Nowadays, the banking industry shapes decision-making worldwide, exemplified in its enduring right to unlimited speculation and its capacity to capture profits that are unmatched by any other industry, especially for its senior managers, while exposing the world to overwhelming risk.
No one can say for sure, but one thing is certain: Whereas the profits from playing transatlantic interest-rate differentials may run to 1% or 2% per year, investors can easily lose that amount in a single day – or even an hour – by buying the wrong currency when the trend turns.
Instead, these countries export low-value-added manufactured goods (Mexico does more, of course), and live off remittances, tourism, and drug-transhipment profits.
What businesses in these countries need is not necessarily more finance, but the expectation of larger profits for their owners.
And oh, of course, it would cut into their profits, too!
The vast, often undocumentable profits that flow to these companies go a long way toward explaining why facilities like Gitmo – and privately owned and operated prisons in the US itself – never close.
If new places enter the ‘city business,’ the working poor will find [affordable] urban housing and transport for the same reason that they now find food: because someone profits by offering it to them.”
Allowing major multinational companies, which are already reaping massive profits and crowding smaller players out of entire industries, to avoid paying much tax does far-reaching damage, not least by exacerbating inequality and weakening public budgets.
The No. 1 reason is that China's high growth creates big profits for Hong Kong investors.
Indeed, since the industry launched its public-relations campaign in the early 2000’s, cost estimates have increased roughly sevenfold, and profits have declined.
This is not a new idea; a 2016 study published in the Harvard Business Review found that companies with more high-level female executives generate higher profits.
Markets seem to believe that there is light at the end of the tunnel for the economy and for the battered profits of corporations and financial firms.
Second, the profits and earnings of corporations and financial institutions will not rebound as fast as the consensus predicts, as weak economic growth, deflationary pressures, and surging defaults on corporate bonds will limit firms’ pricing power and keep profit margins low.
Until now, Americans have been raking in profits by borrowing cheaply from pliant foreigners and investing the money in high-yield foreign equities, land, and bonds.
Abuse of it harms everyone, and profits from its use should benefit all as well, implying the need to establish worldwide democratic rights over what is an unarguably universal resource.
For example, a well-known study has documented how the spread of mobile phones in the Indian state of Kerala enabled fishermen to arbitrage price differences across local markets, increasing their profits by 8% on average as a result.
They stress that outsourcing cuts costs - just like a technological change that improves productivity, thus increasing profits - and what is good for profits must be good for the American economy.
But in an era of diminishing profits and shrinking audiences, is fake news really the biggest threat that traditional media face?
The erosion of business models and growing dependence on third-party digital distributors – like Facebook and Google – have handcuffed news organizations and cut deeply into their profits.
At the sectoral level, a couple of key industries – most notably, finance and information technology – secured a growing share of profits.
In the United States, for example, the financial sector generates just 4% of employment, but accounts for more than 25% of corporate profits.
And half of US companies that generate profits of 25% or more are tech firms.
In the late 1970s, as neoliberalism took hold, policymakers became less concerned about big firms converting profits into political influence, and instead worried that governments were protecting uncompetitive companies.
Policymakers now need a new approach that resists excessive concentration, which may create efficiency gains, but also allows firms to hoard profits and invest less.
British economist Nicholas Stern has argued for policy intervention to prevent investors from earning higher short-term profits by pricing carbon at zero (which implies a collective long-term bet on unsustainable increases in global temperatures).
But until they do, policymakers should start thinking about how pay-or-play schemes could be used to address growing popular disenchantment with a corporate sector where only insiders seem to benefit from rising profits.
So, why not replace the tax on reported profits with a pay-or-play tax on a percentage of their overall sales?
Politicians around the world have grown tired of Facebook’s constant attempts to avoid accountability in the name of profits.
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