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Declining profits and rising enterprise bankruptcies are posing challenges to China’s monetary authority.
This could only be rational if the seller can hope to establish a monopoly position and extract large profits in the future.
Tax changes encouraging US corporations to repatriate their profits would unleash a wave of capital inflows, pushing up the dollar still further.
And there were, in fact, tax changes creating incentives for the repatriation of profits.
On the other hand, the increased cost would be offset to some extent by lower-cost imported inputs, and foreign affiliates could expect to repatriate higher profits from sales in China in terms of their own currencies.
One might think that a country that owns foreign oil can use the profits from sales to insulate its economy from high world oil prices.
Rather than subsidizing the price in the domestic oil market (and thus giving domestic manufacturers and consumers an incentive to use too much oil), it would make far better sense to let the domestic price rise to the international price and distribute the windfall profits from foreign oil assets to the population.
But, because of political pressure exerted by small, powerful interest groups, windfall profits will inevitably be spent at home in unwise subsidies.
They know, however, a chance for making good profits in a rapidly expanding market when they see one.
With credit exhausted, the effects on aggregate demand of decades of redistribution of income and wealth – from labor to capital, from wages to profits, from poor to rich, and from households to corporate firms – have become severe, owing to the lower marginal propensity of firms/capital owners/rich households to spend.
Governments also bankroll much of the research underlying the industry’s profits.
Their interests were aligned, because higher tariffs allowed workers to demand higher wages, while capitalists could still make higher profits in the absence of foreign competition.
So, if Trump followed through on his campaign promise to impose a 45% import tariff on Chinese goods (most likely in violation of World Trade Organization rules), he would strike a major blow to US multinationals’ profits.
Adherence to these principles ensures that private rent-seeking and appropriation of oil profits, a major dimension of the so-called resource curse, is avoided.
They pushed through tax cuts on profits and wages to boost investment and growth, with debatable results.
Certain players, led by big banks, extracted huge profits during the boom, and avoided the deep losses that they deserved during the bust.
The third change is a tax on the financial sector, in the form of a Financial Activities Tax on profits and remuneration at big banks that enjoy implicit government guarantees.
Shareholders may want to take the difference as profits, but they cannot do without the team.
Rethinking the Twenty-First-Century EconomyGENEVA – Before the threat of a US-China trade war arose, surging stock markets and corporate profits had obscured the fact that the global economic system is under existential stress.
The public is upset about top managers’ salaries and the fact that big German companies fire workers despite record profits.
This alarms the public and incites anger against capitalists who do not reinvest their profits.
The increased profits are not a result of their mining prowess, but of China’s huge demand for steel.
The level of real interest rates is particularly important for share prices, because higher inflation raises nominal profits in a way that offsets the inflation component of higher interest rates.
He might have added that the business of business everywhere is to pursue profits, for lately some corporate leaders seem to have lost sight of that elementary precept.
During the 30 months he ruled his country, from mid-1998 to the start of 2001, Estrada accepted payoffs from gambling lords and orchestrated (with social security funds) sales of stocks, channeling much of the profits into his personal aliased account.
This, in turn, requires a proper procedure, based on transparent competition, for the initial sale of prospecting rights, as well as a well-designed tax system to collect revenues from subsequent corporate profits.
The most effective business leaders care about more than quarterly profits or beating the competition, just as the most effective government leaders care about more than winning the next election or grabbing headlines.
In theory, there is some merit to reducing the rate, which, at 35%, is one of the world’s highest (and probably spurs companies to keep profits overseas).
Data on corporate profits also contradict the view that we are mired in deflation.
On the contrary, in many advanced economies, profits are high – even reaching record levels – owing partly to lower input costs.
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