Corporate Profits

Fortune 500 Companies Made Record $824 Billion Profit In 2011

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Layoffs, General Electric, Video, Fortune 500, Unemployment, Corporate Profits, General Motors, Lockheed Martin, Pfizer, Fortune, Corporate Earnings, Wal-Mart, Business News

Poverty is rampant. Hunger is widespread. But don't worry about America's largest corporations -- they're doing just fine. Fortune released its ann...

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Corporations Raking In Money At Prerecession Levels, But Not Hiring

HuffingtonPost.com | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 05.05.2012

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It's a good time to be an American corporate executive, but not such a great time to be a job seeker. That's because U.S. corporate profits have r...

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Why Working From Home May Not Be All It's Cracked Up To Be

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 05.01.2012

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Workers are getting more flexibility from their employers, but that doesn't necessarily mean their lives are getting any easier. Companies are le...

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More Workers Filing Lawsuits To Claim Unpaid Overtime

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 04.16.2012

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More workers are fighting back against their employers. Workers filed 32 percent more lawsuits against their employers for unpaid overtime last ye...

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Corporations Gone Wild

Harvey Rosenfield | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Corporate Profits, AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion, Wall Street, Citizens United, Corporations, Business News

It's a magnificent time to be alive -- if you're a giant corporation, that is. Spring is here, and after a deep chill, the mighty mega-businesses are not merely reborn, but blossoming.

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America's Dying Industries

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Instagram, Dying Industries, Ibisworld, Corporate Profits, 24/7 Wall St., Great Recession, Economy, Photofinishing, Employment, Manufacturing, Eastman Kodak, Washington Post, Economic Policy Insitute, Facebook, Business News

Some industries just may not have what it takes to survive today's changing economic climate. Technological advances, offshore manufacturing and s...

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The Corporations That Make Money Off Taxes

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Taxes, Boeing, General Electric, Fortune 500, Think Progress, Verizon, Corporate Profits, Tax Rates, Corporate Taxes, Tax Subsidies, Citizens for Tax Justice, Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, Corporate Tax Cuts, Corporate Tax Rates, Corporations, Corporate Tax Loopholes, Corporate Tax Revenue, Business News

Instead of giving money to the government, it turns out more than a few U.S. companies are actually making money off their income taxes. In a recen...

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Major U.S. Corporations Squeezing Even More Money Out Of Employees

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Productivity Per Employee, Revenue Per Employee, Corporate Profits, Employee Revenue, S&P 500, Video, Profit, Profits, Revenue, Revenue Employee, Revenues, S&P 500 Companies, Productivity, Employee Productivity, Business News

Major corporations are making certain they get their money's worth out of each individual employee. S&P 500 companies made an average $420,000 in ...

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Companies Feel Your Pain, Sort Of

The Huffington Post | Mark Gongloff | Posted 04.09.2012

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Though you cannot roll each one of them up and smoke them, you still need to know seven and a half things each day, and here they are: Thing One: S...

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Corporations Plan for Post-Middle-Class America

Bernard Starr | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Corporate Profits, Middle Class, Corporations, Green Products, Middle Class America, Depleting Middle Class, Corporate America, Business News

American business has eliminated untold numbers of other middle class jobs. That's why the employment and housing markets are struggling, food stamp use is at an all-time high and the ranks of the working poor are swelling, while corporate profits soar.

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Bringing the Money Back Home

Jim Worth | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Deficit, Taxes, Corporations, Politics, Repatriation, Congress, Republicans, Corporate Profits, Democrats, Foreign Profits, Economy, Business News

The Hagan/McCain legislation falls short of its potential and should be rejected and replaced by a fairer, more equitable bill that truly begins to rebalance this country.

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We Should Raise Corporate Taxes (Not Lower Them)

Harlan Green | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Taxes, Corporate Profits, Corporate Taxes, Income Inequality, Professor James Livingston, Corporate Greed, Warren Buffett, Business News

Raising corporate taxes -- or closing all the loopholes -- is a first step if we want to create a sustainable recovery, rather than more busted bubbles.

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The Three R's of Boosting Profitability

Mary Ellen Biery | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Small Business, Business, Profitability, Corporate Profits, Generating Profits, Gross Profit Margin, Sageworks, Driving Profits, Business Profitablity, Cutting Costs, Cost-Cutting, Small Business News

If sales volumes aren't improving or are volatile, business owners can still grow profits. Here are three ways to generate more bang for the bucks your business brings in.

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Where Is Obama's Windfall Profits Tax On the Oil and Gas Industry?

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Corporate Profits, Exxon Mobil, Congress, Corporate Tax, Corporations, Windfall Profits Tax, Exxon Mobil Profits, American Small Business League, Corporate Influence, change.gov, Oil Profits, Oil Companies, Politics News

The promise was displayed prominently at the top of the "economy" section of Obama's campaign website. However, the language regarding the windfall profits tax vanished in an unceremonious and abrupt manner.

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Corporate Taxes As Percentage Of Profits Now Lowest In Decades

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 02.03.2012

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As a percentage of ever-growing profits, corporations are paying less in taxes than they have in decades. Thanks in part to federal tax breaks, cor...

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Wages Fell In 2011, While Corporate Profits Surged

HuffingtonPost.com | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 02.01.2012

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A new report out Tuesday shows that working Americans made less money last year, as real wages fell about two percent in 2011, when accounting for inf...

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The Five Republican Myths About Inequality

David Morris | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Taxes, Corporate Profits, Wealth, Mobility, Ceo, Occupy, Rich, Wall Street, Inequality, Romney, Income Inequality, Productivity, Mitt Romney Wealth, Mitt Romney, Republicans, Politics News

Recent comments by Mitt Romney, still the probable Republican nominee for president, all but guarantee the inequality issue will remain front and center this election year.

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In Defense of Capitalism: Profit Is Not a Dirty Word

John Friedman | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Corporate Profits, Opportunity, Prosperity, Freedom, Environment, Sustainability, Csr, Capitalism, Economic Growth, Business News

Wanting a better life for one's self and one's significant others is the strength behind capitalism. The quick-buck-and-the-heck-with-the-consequences attitude that became so vogue in the dot.com era was not and is not typical. For most of the history of capitalism 'built to last' was the norm.

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Government Has to Work -- or Else

Harlan Green | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Corporate Profits, Federal Budget Deficit, Income Inequality U.S., Dr. Joseph Stiglitz, Great Depression, Vanity Fair, Great Recession, Libertarian Ron Paul, GW Bush, Presidents Ronald Reagan, Business News

What we need to do instead is embark on a massive investment program -- as we did, virtually by accident, 80 years ago -- that will increase our productivity for years to come, and will also increase employment now.

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Both Public And Private Sector Wages Barely Grew Over Twelve Months

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 01.23.2012

Whether you work for the government or the private sector, it's likely your salary didn't go up much in 2011, but federal workers saw their wages grow...

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Dear Supercommittee: "It's Consumer Spending, Stupid!"

Harlan Green | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Congressional Super Committee, Congressional Budget Office, Consumer Spending, Paul Krugman, Corporate Profits, #Occupywallstreet, Professor James Livingston, Business News

It isn't consumer debt, as much as the lack of income that has prevented consumers from spending enough to boost economic growth.

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Just Say No to Corporate Greed

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: Taxes, Poverty, Corporate Profits, Corporate Responsibility, Jobs, Joblessness, Corporate Social Responsibility, Tax Breaks, Corporate Taxes, Bush Tax Cuts, Unemployment, Job Cuts, Corporate America, Tax Cuts, Repatriation Tax Holiday, Corporate Greed, Business News

One solution being proposed by some of our Congressional leaders is a rehash of an old experiment: a repatriation tax holiday that would temporarily allow U.S.-based companies to bring home profits they currently hold overseas.

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Income Inequality Is the Achilles Heel in the GOP Strategy to Demonize Occupy Wall Street

Mitchell Bard | Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Wealth Redistribution, Wealth Inequality, Corporate Profits, Tax Cuts for the Wealthy, Income Inequality, Occupy Wall Street, Financial Crisis, New York Times, Rick Perry, Bush Tax Cuts, Republicans, Politics News

Give Rick Perry credit for his honesty. He just articulated out loud what is the accepted dogma of the modern Tea Party-owned Republican party, completely dedicated to protecting the wealthy and corporations on the backs of the (rapidly shrinking) middle class.

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Spending Big On Lobbying May Help Net Bigger Profits

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: Repatriation, Big Tobacco, Corporate Profits, Lobbying, Corporations, Lobbyists, Occupy Wall Street, Federal Lobbying, Defense Contractors, Strategas, Tax Repatriation Holiday, For-Profit Colleges, Video, Business News

You need to spend money to make money, as the saying goes. It's an idea lobbyists might find particularly resonant: Companies that spend money on appe...

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A Housing Market Divided: The Rich And Everyone Else

AP | By MICHELLE CONLIN | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Video, Housing Market, Foreclosure Crisis, Corporate Profits, Zillow.com, Mortgage, Great Recession, Capital Economics, Foreclosure, Corelogic, Great Depression, Business News

-- In America, it's starting to feel as if there are two housing markets. One for the rich and one for everyone else. Consider foreclosure-ravaged D...

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