He doesn't see a replacement source of higher profits on the horizon to break the spiral.
After all, higher productivity growth must eventually show up in either higher profits or higher wages.
Most people will agree the unethical path may have higher profits but only in the short run.
Plus, the already employed get the benefit of the new services provided and entrepreneurs earn higher profits.
In any business, inefficient firms will eventually fold, giving way to those that can earn higher profits.
The much-needed pick-up in capital spending will require both the resolution of those uncertainties and higher profits.
Stockmarkets rallied strongly this week in hope that economic recovery, and hence higher profits, is around the corner.
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So, being the greedy capitalists that they are they pile in with their own money chasing those higher profits.
Genuine reflation would also increase bond yields, however, partly offsetting those higher profits.
Many are tempted to join producer-owned co-operatives, where farmers can make higher profits by pooling resources and cutting out middlemen.
Instead, they were hoping the former speaker of the house could help them gain more power, more influence and higher profits.
Thanks to recent productivity improvements, corporate America is well placed to turn higher sales directly into higher profits, says Mr Standevad.
You also have the employer of the programmer who has higher profits in the short-run, and lower prices in the long-run.
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Not if you want its shares cheap but yes if you think that its growth will translate into higher profits later.
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In the late 1990s it was widely assumed that faster productivity growth would mean higher profits (so justifying higher share prices).
Some respondents, however, expressed concerns that cost-cutting continues to drive earnings growth or that higher profits are not translating into economic growth.
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Higher profits from CBS, Facebook and other companies also lifted stocks Thursday.
During the past 20 years, the need for higher profits and the progressive weakening of the regulatory barriers have led both J.
Specifically, the most data-driven companies had 4% higher productivity and 6% higher profits than the average in our sample, all else being equal.
Moreover, News Corp may be willing to assume more risk going forward given the success of Avatar and thus potentially reap higher profits.
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The things now causing great fear, like the questionable solvency of Greece, are just speed bumps en route to economic growth and higher profits.
Levy believed that the U.S. economy would, through a succession of business cycles, reignite and spark the higher profits that are the fuel of rising share prices.
The reason that businesses are in the fuel-cell race today is simple: the hope of cleaner and more efficient products points to higher profits.
They always look for lower costs and higher profits, but they realize the only way they can grow the company is to grow the people.
Consensus forecasts must project higher profits over the next two years.
Because bankers are paid such big bonuses, they seek clever ways to report higher profits while concealing the true risks from their own management or shareholders.
But for many years, Tesco had a superior ability to organise the logistics and processes behind their supermarkets, raking up substantially higher profits in the process.
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What happens next is that others note those higher profits and thus allocate more of their own capital to the same area, chasing those higher returns.
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Their competitors eventually will figure out that a distributed team is a big factor in why their rivals are achieving lower cost structures, higher profits, and a more contented workforce.
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