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Furthermore, E-Corp colleges might be required to reveal their per student instructional, marketing, and executive-compensation costs, as well as their pre-tax profits.

As Apple’s profits have grown, it has amassed $137 billion in cash, according to a recent count – more than it can profitably use (at least for now) in its operations.

So, no more wage moderation; with profits back it is time to get higher wages for workers back, too.

Given the benefits of preventive care, the test has become highly controversial, because its manufacturer, Myriad Genetics, holds a genetic patent that gives it a monopoly – and huge profits – on all testing.

In addition to raising worries about the drug’s availability, the move exposes one of the great flaws of the US health-care system: profits can be – and often are – placed ahead of people.

And because the demand curve for life-saving medications is almost perfectly inelastic, raising the price by more than 5,000% is a rational way to maximize profits.

Russians pay for this consumption from the profits of gas and oil.

The government partially redistributes profits by collecting taxes and paying salaries.

To avoid inflation, the government deposits a large part of its profits into a Stabilization Fund.

If the cultural component is important, why share the profits with Western-minded people like Khodorkovsky?

Even if anti-takeover provisions hurt firms’ performance, however, investors may be unable to make trading profits if prices come to reflect the effects of these publicly-known provisions.

Profits create incentives to respond to the information contained in prices.

And capital markets allocate resources in pursuit of profits.

So, if the entire write-down cost were covered by banks, most of them would lose the equivalent of no more than one year’s profits – spread over several years.

Those boom-time profits were in any case overstated, because they were not adjusted for risk.

At any time, your investments, profits, and hard work may be taxed away to feed the dead hand of past lenders.

Second, use the profits on those bonds to pay off the IMF.

In the US and many other places, corporate profits as a share of national income are at a decades-long high, in part owing to labor-saving technology in a multitude of sectors.

In any public-health crisis – especially one like the current Ebola outbreak – potential profits cannot guide drug development or deployment.

Clearly, the industry has pulled out all the stops to expand production and profits before the world moves to a decarbonized economy.

Promoting alcohol, sugary drinks, and fast food may mean massive profits for corporations.

And while the World Health Organization skimps by on $2 billion a year, the tobacco industry rakes in $35 billion in annual profits.

Spending on political advertising is skyrocketing, boosting profits at broadcast and cable news networks, which have been struggling with declining viewership and lackluster revenues.

But this year, America’s media industry seems more inclined to bank its profits than bolster its reporting on a presidential campaign that even its senior executives acknowledge has become a circus.

Laws guaranteeing a fair division of Iraqi oil profits must be drafted, and all factions must have confidence that what is agreed will be enforced.

And while he would broaden the tax base, increase the carried-interest tax, and encourage companies to repatriate foreign profits, his plan would not be revenue-neutral.

But if international currency speculators get the scent of near-inevitable profits from an ongoing dollar decline in their nostrils, all Asian central banks together will not be able to keep the dollar high.

Yet Murdoch has continued to produce large enough profits to silence institutional shareholders such as the Vanguard Group, Fidelity Investments, and Franklin Templeton Investments.

On the whole, these large companies are growing faster – and generating higher profits – than their global peers.

To assure that, profits – protected by patents – are needed.

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