-
Old-fashioned economists used to think that this sort of thing was what kept the Invisible Hand waggling lucratively away.
ECONOMIST: Spending and happiness
-
It is equally true that many traders who fueled the market meltdown are now lucratively situated in other jobs.
FORBES: Wall Street's Prestige: The Less There Is to Go Around, the More Valuable It Gets
-
Ackerman founded a cult magazine, Famous Monsters of Filmland, and, more lucratively, became an agent for horror and science-fiction writers.
NEWYORKER: Show The Monster
-
That set of policies and procedures, enacted by the new accounting regulator, the PCAOB, replaced the initial instructions auditors had interpreted very strictly and very lucratively.
FORBES: Navistar Sues Deloitte Proving No Statute of Limitations On Idiocy
-
Banks and other credit card issuers found it to be entirely and lucratively to their advantage to set up a table and some koozies on a college campus.
FORBES: Credit Card Companies Want Your Kids. A Lot.
-
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act has imposed enormous costs on businesses, particularly small ones, yet these paperwork burdens have not prevented corporate fraud. (And this bureaucratic delight didn't ban corporate executives from lucratively backdating stock options, thereby generating huge gains with virtually no risk.) Those intent on wrongdoing will easily find ways around paper barriers.
FORBES: Fact and Comment