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This helps explain why the Greek and Argentine governments are perennially in deficit (until borrowing options dry up and adjustment is inevitable), or why prices – and profits – are high in sectors (for example, transportation and telecoms) that provide would-be entrepreneurs with crucial (but often unaffordable) inputs.
Even democratic governments – such as those of Australia, Canada, and India – have resorted to claims that protests are externally controlled in order to discredit local resistance to, say, oil pipelines or coal mines that are supposed to generate profits and growth.
Consider just the profits from cocaine sales in North America, which, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), total roughly $35 billion.
In Mexico, a recent report published by the magazine Nexos estimated organized crime’s total “rent” at $8 billion per year – a small portion of total profits, but enough to buy off underpaid cops, bribe corrupt public officials, and influence local economies.
If profits were eliminated, the need for that reserve army would disappear.
It assumed that demand would always be sufficient if profits were eliminated.
Keynes demonstrated that the main cause of bouts of heavy and prolonged unemployment was not worker encroachment on profits, but the fluctuating prospects of private investment in an uncertain world.
That means limiting their power, and their profits.
It could borrow money from a bank and repay it from resulting profits.
Yet politics in the US has increasingly allowed corporate profits to dominate all other aspirations: fairness, justice, trust, physical and mental health, and environmental sustainability.
The mad pursuit of corporate profits is threatening us all.
That is a big change from traditional privatization of public services, in which government contractors reap profits simply by billing for services.
By the same token, auditing firms that make more money from consulting than from providing auditing services have a conflict of interest: they have (at least in the short run) an incentive to go easy on their clients, or even, as consultants, to help their clients think of ways - "within the rules," of course -- that improve the appearance of profits.
During my premiership, my government sought to investigate RosUkrEnergo – to discover who precisely its owners are, how it gained a virtual monopoly on the import of Central Asian gas, and where its profits go.
And the timing couldn’t have been more congenial: the Soviet empire’s collapse and China’s opening generated a surge of labor supply for global capitalism – a billion additional workers – that boosted profits and stifled wage growth throughout the West.
Moreover, corporate profits have reached record highs in recent years, and while corporate taxes in Germany remain relatively high compared to other countries, they were reduced significantly in the 2000s.
With the German corporate sector having run up massive profits for more than a decade, the resources are certainly available.
But the trade rules inscribed in DR-CAFTA promote profits for a few at the expense of the well being of the many.
Some Chinese are suspicious that the US push for RMB appreciation and financial-market liberalization is really an attempt to gain trade advantages and generate profits for American companies while slowing China’s economic expansion.
Second, sensible tax reforms, such as an amnesty for multinational companies that repatriate foreign profits, will finally become law.
The EU began life as a cartel of heavy industries determined to manipulate prices and redistribute monopoly profits through a bureaucracy located in Brussels.
The reason this is not widely understood is because of the traditional method used to calculate seigniorage – the profits governments make from the printing of money.
But, without its own currency-issuing central bank, Scotland would forego seigniorage (profits from central-bank operations that typically benefit the national treasury).
While the United States is ahead of the pack, some of its gains could soon be lost, as accumulating inventories begin eroding profits.
But the system of taxing global profits is broken – and it is exacerbating inequality both within and across countries.
The proposals include a minimum corporate tax agreed by developed countries, and mechanisms to prevent multinationals from shifting their profits to subsidiaries in low-tax jurisdictions.
Even in his era, businesses found that they could increase profits more easily by conspiring to raise prices than by producing innovative products more efficiently.
The motto was simple: Germany gives and profits in turn.
Some of the problems stem from the financial sector, which is once again taking advantage of low interest rates to pump up leverage in search of higher profits.
Large firms are relatively risk-averse not only because they are bureaucracies, with layers of management required to sign off on any innovation, but also because they are reluctant to back innovations that threaten to render obsolete the products or services that currently account for their profits.
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