A blog of my opinions. Plus charts and cats. Commentary; June 14, 2019. Chart of the Day: Corporate Profits Are Up, Corporate Taxes Are Down ...

As the first chart shows, between the end of World War II and around 2000, U.S. profits largely ranged between 5% to 7% of GDP, so the 2000 bubble peak wasn’t all that remarkable.

Chart #1 compares after-tax corporate profits to nominal GDP. Over the past three decades, profits have increased at a much faster pace than nominal GDP.

There's no doubt that corporate income tax revenues have been falling as a percentage of GDP, as this chart from FRED shows: And yet corporate profits are up over 10% of GDP these days. So, what ...

A blog of my opinions. Plus charts and cats. Commentary; July 10, 2018. Chart of the Day: Corporate Profits Under Threat From Skyrocketing Wages ...

Why you shouldn’t fear the corporate profit decline, in one chart. Published: March 30, 2016 at 11:34 a.m. ET. Share. Resize. First, the bad news — corporate profits are shrinking.

Chart Of The Day: Corporate Profits Vs. S&P 500. Apr. 11, 2013 5:02 AM ET SPY 4 Comments. Cullen Roche. 68.89K Followers. Follow. I've made a big fuss over QE in recent years, and yet, the market ...

With today's release of the first revision to Q3 GDP, we got fresh data on corporate profits. It turns out that corporate profits hit a brand new all-time high in the quarter. The chart is just ...

In a note that accompanies the charts below, Deutsche Bank strategist Jim Reid notes that U.S. corporate profits and asset prices are near all-time highs, while the budget and trade deficits are ...