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.

This chart shows the corporate profit margin in blue—what for a can of chili would be the selling price to the consumer minus the cost of the cows, the beans, the tomatoes, etc., plus wages paid ...

A businessman looking up at a chart on the wall above him that shows declining sales or performance. DNY59 Getty Images Another corporate earnings season is upon investors, and it is a season of ...

Raising corporate taxes - not cutting them - frequently delivers faster economic growth Stock investors are fooling themselves if they believe that corporate profits will grow faster once ...

Katie Porter pulls out chart at hearing to show corporate greed is the “biggest driver of inflation” Armed with a chart, Porter got economist Mike Konczal to agree that corporate profits drove ...

Coverage ratios, which compare a firm’s profits with its interest costs, have begun an ominous decline (see chart 2). In the private debt market, where default rates tend to be higher, borrowers ...

U.S. Rep. Katie Porter is pulling out her famous charts. This time it’s to argue that corporate greed is driving inflation. We’ll explain why this debate isn’t settled. Plus, Liz Truss ...

The other part of the answer is that corporate profit margins are a function of factors more impactful than taxes. Take a look at the chart above, which plots the S&P 500's SPX profit margin over ...

M any investors will have greeted the start of corporate America’s latest earnings season feeling chipper. After a brief wobble in the first half of last year, the profits of big American firms ...

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 ...