Washington is taking over wide swaths of the for-profit economy, including major portions of the mortgage, automotive and energy industries, the health care field and the banking and insurance sectors.
His magic was to profit from an economy which in those days had great unmet demand but little cash.
With volume, you may be able to increase that per-property profit due to economy of scale, buying materials in broke, and receiving significant discounts from contractors.
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In a market-based economy, scarce resources seek profit and are allocated to sectors of the economy where consumer demand is high and there are potential profits.
So, as long as those Chanel dresses and BMWs keep selling, the economy may profit.
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Perhaps mobile will evolve to profit from the Share Economy as the slide show below points out.
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All will tend to see profit improvements if the economy picks up and factories begin humming above trend levels of utilization.
With interest rates so low to have actual investment income to report, this surtax is like pouring salt in the wound of people who have finally made a profit in a brutal economy.
Cost cutting, shrinking profit margins and a slow economy have influenced a lot of bad decision making.
The difference this time is that new technology has increased competition and squeezed profit margins across the whole economy.
So the first thing we had to do was to make sure that companies were starting to make a profit again, and the economy was growing.
Google (GOOG) has proven the potential for explosive revenue growth due to a strong search brand, and BIDU is well positioned to profit in the fastest growing economy in the world.
If you account correctly for stock buybacks made with borrowed money (even IBM does it) and option grants that obscure salary expenses, you get down to 4% profit real fast unless the economy zooms.
Then, Commerce prescribes a proper amount of profit that firms selling the subject product in the non-market economy should be earning, if they were operating in a market economy, again by reference to the profit experience of chosen firms in a similar industry in the other country.
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On the plus side, the revamped automaker has already proven it's capable of earning a tidy profit, even in a miserable economy.
Corporations, especially multi-nationals that derive much of their business overseas, are facing slowing demand because of the weakening global economy, weighing on profit margins.
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Politicians, bureaucrats, interest groups and broad swathes of public opinion are united in a conviction that profit (and hence the market economy) is morally impaired.
HMOs to choose from, a mixed economy of for-profit and non-profit hospitals, and citizens less inclined than ever to accept whatever the medical profession condescends to offer.
But a new survey just released by the National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE), a Denver non-profit, highlights how the struggling economy has also meant harder times for them.
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Government work does not grow the economy, only private, profit making activities can do this.
Those who thought the market was overvalued cited high corporate profit margins, gas prices and the economy as their rationale.
As the economy recovers, we expect profit margins to rise to around 18% by 2013 and stay about flat thereafter.
And boosting profit margins in a slow-growing economy means lifting productivity.
No serious student of science technology can be anything but bullish about the long-term prospects for profit and growth in the ingenuity-driven economy.
U.S. carmakers complain they now have to sell large numbers of money-losing smaller vehicles in order to sell high-profit larger vehicles and meet the overall fuel economy average.
And while the struggling economy has forced many non-profit charities to scale back the pursuit of their missions for lack of confident donors, Congress withheld a tiny provision in the tax code designed to connect charitably inclined retirees with causes in need of funding for 2012 until ATRA, the American Tax Relief Act of 2013.
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But as America's economy (and so its corporate-profit growth) slows, that money could dry up.
As the global economy emerged from recession in 2009, profit margins surged thanks to falls in borrowing costs and weak wage growth.
Sales per employee among privately held companiesSome economists, however, note that slowing productivity growth in the U.S. economy could put downward pressure on corporate profit margins.
He hailed Plaid's plans for the economy, including a proposed not-for-profit company that would fund public infrastructure projects.
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