The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.
In 2008, Goldman Sachs only paid 1.1 percent of its income in taxes even though it earned a profit of $2.3 billion and received an almost $800 billion from the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury Department.
I think there's plenty of room for blogs that exist to pay the blogger, or blogs that exist to turn a profit. That's just not the kind of blog I'm writing, and I'm not the kind of blogger that could do that.
Banks need to continue to lend to creditworthy borrowers to earn a profit and remain strong.
Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
What corporations fear is the phenomenon now known, rather inelegantly, as 'commoditization.' What the term means is simply the conversion of the market for a given product into a commodity market, which is characterized by declining prices and profit margins, increasing competition, and lowered barriers to entry.
What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank.
Profit at any cost is one extreme of the spectrum. On the other extreme is unselfish submission for the social good or, more accurately, charity. Somewhere in the middle is peaceful, and much required, coexistence.
All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way.
Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the U.S. economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization and the offshoring of production, driven in part by the declining rate of profit in domestic manufacturing.
I've never used ethnic music as decoration for profit.
To economists, prices serve as crucial signals to producers and consumers. In a regulated market, the state sets prices high enough for private companies to cover their costs and earn a guaranteed profit for their investors. But in a deregulated market, prices should vary with demand and supply.
I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit.
Those who seek to profit by division don't stand a chance.
Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
We do not exploit our dolphins for profit.
You can't have a healthy society unless you have healthy companies that are making a profit, that are employing people and that are growing.
If you have company-owned stores, you make 100 percent of the profit from each one, but you have less entrepreneurial spirit.
War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.