"In the financialized U.S. economy, each dollar of deficit spending may flow into a dollar of corporate profit." ...

That’s after a first quarter slump. The Bureau of Economic Analysis reports corporate profits a little differently than companies themselves. “The proper BEA terminology is profits from current ...

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The linkage between PCE and corporate profits is critical, given that spending generates corporate revenues. After-tax corporate profits stood at roughly $3.26 trillion SAAR in Q2-2025, near the high ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. corporate profits fell sharply in the first quarter and could continue to be squeezed this year by higher costs from tariffs that are threatening to undercut the economic ...

Why do big corporations needs tax breaks and subsidies? Your money goes to taxes, insurance, mortgages or rent, food, entertainment, transportation, maybe education. Taxes are federal income, state ...

Wholesale trade profits plunged by 18% in Q2 from Q1, and by 26% from Q4, and also by 26% year-over-year, to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $218 billion. Manufacturing nondurable goods profits ...

As Congress crafts yet another budget, it is time to confront a quiet enabler of America’s growing wealth gap: the way we tax corporate profits. The U.S. corporate tax system is a maze of complexity, ...

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Walmart’s new foundation president, Kathleen McLaughlin, has quickly put her stamp on the company’s giving. Ms. McLaughlin, who also oversees sustainability for the company, is working on three fronts ...

The uncomfortable truth about wage stagnation isn’t that workers aren’t productive enough—it’s that the system has been deliberately rewired to funnel wealth upward, and a growing chorus of frustrated ...