Insurers also know that any excess profits must be paid back to the government, anyway.
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The Revenue Act of 1945 repealed an excess profits tax, and reduced income and corporate tax rates.
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The early success encouraged entry into the market and those excess profits have now been competed away.
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And thus, after some period of time, that new method of doing business no longer makes excess profits.
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At its peak, the excess profits tax ran to 90% for the Robber Barons who didn't complain too vociferously.
Excess profits and bonuses went into the finance system rather than new investment.
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It is precisely because early VC funds make those excess profits that current VC funds make less than average market profits.
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Put a 90% excess profits tax on all short-sales for 12 months.
Smith, by the way, thought that this was great: it meant that the investment markets actually moved capital swiftly to those areas where there were excess profits.
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But I would wager a small sum (ie, not as much as an Apple share) that some of it is to do with Adam Smith and excess profits.
The board would consist of three members, appointed by the President of the United States to three-year terms, and would be responsible for determining when oil companies were making excess profits.
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Apple will do the best it can to prevent this, defending patents, copyrights and design rights, but someone, we pretty much expect, will catch them and those excess profits will get competed away.
The object of strategy is to position the business in a place where the barriers are so high that there is little competition and excess profits are more or less guaranteed over long periods of time.
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Mr Brickman of Cardozo School of Law is lobbying Congress to impose an excess-profits tax on the lawyers' fees.
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Permanent tax cuts are unlikely to boost investment, which is influenced more by profits, excess capacity and confidence.
Third was a ruthless focus on profits in excess of capital costs within the foreseeable future as the success criteria for proposed investments of time or money.
As excess capacity is cut, profits rise and investment eventually recovers.
We know, we can see, that Apple is making excess (in the economic sense) profits from its products.
Back then, excess reserves were considered uneconomical, since banks could make more profits off lending the money to fellow banks overnight or to clients.
In January he launched Ford's latest turnaround effort, called the "Way Forward, " which seeks to restore North American profits by 2008 by reducing material costs, shedding excess workers and factories, and sharpening the focus of the company's Ford, Lincoln and Mercury brands.
Profits will elude these chip makers until demand rises to match the excess capacity, which should occur around the middle of 2013.
Now that sales of with-profits policies have dwindled, however, regulators are pushing insurance companies to unload their excess capital.
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