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With huge profits and bonuses at stake, mega-banks won’t readily abandon their model-based businesses; but, unless that happens, placing most of our bets on top-down rules would be reckless folly.
Of these, only the Gusinsky group derives its profits primarily from the media.
And it can play an important role as an implementer, translating profits into sustained economic growth, social inclusion, and environmental protection.
Multinational organizations need to consider seriously how decisions about outsourcing, shifting profits, and finding tax advantages overseas will be perceived.
An already protectionist Trump administration will then have to pursue additional protectionist measures to maintain these workers’ support, thereby further hampering economic growth and diminishing corporate profits.
The existence of large financial-market actors that do not care about maximizing their profits magnifies the riskiness of the bets.
Their activities, they proclaim, are aimed not just at maximizing profits for shareholders, but also at creating a better future for their workers, the communities in which they work, and the world more generally.
The Davos CEOs were euphoric about the return to growth, about their soaring profits and compensation.
No one knows precisely the Mexican drug cartels’ annual profits, but they certainly amount to billions of dollars.
The idea that it is rational for a company to incur enormous losses by selling below cost in order to achieve or maintain a monopoly position has been roundly criticized by economists who argue that situations in which such losses can be recouped by subsequent monopoly profits are extremely rare.
Other governments want to protect the profits of favored companies.
When this happens, seed is transformed from being a common good into being the “intellectual property” of companies such as Monsanto, for which the corporation can claim limitless profits through royalty payments.
For farmers, this means higher costs; for seed corporations, higher profits.
Today, the lower capital gains rate is available on shareholder profits made when selling stock held for one year or more.
The second step would be to shift the corporate tax base from profits reported to have been earned in a country to sales made and wages paid in that country.
Control over operating costs is the key to understanding of Shell's big profits in Nigeria.
Similarly, new reserves "discovered" by Shell to enable it to press a claim for the Reserves Addition Bonus was a key source of company profits until 1999, when a new government reviewed the Memorandum of Understanding.
Once a new technology is established, private entrepreneurs, with the help of venture capital, adapt it to global market demand, build temporary or long-term monopoly positions, and thereby capture large profits.
They want to promote investment and economic growth, create jobs, stabilize public finances, expand markets, turn profits, ensure reliable energy and food supplies, produce goods and services, reduce poverty, and build cities.
Beyond bolstering Japanese security and regional stability, such an effort would likely boost Japan’s GDP and yield major profits for American defense firms.
The companies then sold the assets to major international investors for huge profits, depriving the DRC’s citizens of many hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.
But a few “vulture” funds – most notoriously the hedge fund Elliott Management, headed by the billionaire Paul E. Singer – saw Argentina’s travails as an opportunity to make huge profits at the expense of the Argentine people.
Imagine living on only $3 million a year, with the other $7 million paid only if the profits you earned turn out to be real?
Most disturbing is the extent to which companies, so often stalwart defenders of the rule of law when it comes to their own rights, deliberately flout the law – heedless of the consequences – when it comes to maximizing profits.
After all, the financial singularity implies that all prices would be based on such things as optimally projected future corporate profits and the correlation of profits with expected technological innovations and long-term demographic changes.
But Latin America’s powerful transnational criminal movements, such as the gangs in Mexico that control much of the drug trafficking into the US, do not want to jeopardize their profits by associating themselves with al-Qaeda and its affiliates.
If these private-public partnerships are like those elsewhere, the government will assume the risks, and the hedge funds will assume the profits.
Some sectors or firms – especially those that rely heavily on imports, such as US retailers – would face sharp increases in their tax liabilities; in some cases, these increases would be even greater than their pre-tax profits.
Allowing multinational companies to repatriate overseas profits without paying additional US tax would also bolster investment and job creation at home.
This results in significant increases in agricultural productivity and higher profits.
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