Sentences with phrase «above corporate profits»

We could strive for global rules governing corporate behavior that would place human well - being and the health of the earth above corporate profits.

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As I exhaustively document in the three links above, profits for the companies in China which make the goods for Corporate America are slim — from 1 % to 3 %.

This year's awards are open to all Australian business women that meet the entry criteria in the following categories: * Westpac Group Business Owner Award (owners with a 50 per cent share or more in a business, with responsibility for key management decision making); * Australian Government Private and Corporate Sector Award (employees in the private and corporate sectors, or owners with less than a 50 per cent share of a business); * Hudson Community and Government Award (employees of government departments, statutory bodies and not - for - profit organisations); * Panasonic Young Business Women's Award (women aged 30 years and under, with any of the above cCorporate Sector Award (employees in the private and corporate sectors, or owners with less than a 50 per cent share of a business); * Hudson Community and Government Award (employees of government departments, statutory bodies and not - for - profit organisations); * Panasonic Young Business Women's Award (women aged 30 years and under, with any of the above ccorporate sectors, or owners with less than a 50 per cent share of a business); * Hudson Community and Government Award (employees of government departments, statutory bodies and not - for - profit organisations); * Panasonic Young Business Women's Award (women aged 30 years and under, with any of the above criteria).

«Our «rational exuberance» rests on a combination of above - trend US and global economic growth, low albeit slowly rising interest rates, and profit growth aided by corporate tax reform likely to be adopted by early next year,» Kostin said in a report for clients.

Quarterly U.S. earnings have been strong, but investors said worries are increasing that corporate profits are at a peak, with estimated year - over-year profit growth for S&P 500 companies above 25 percent, according to Thomson Reuters data.

But U.S. domestic corporate profitability is running 50 pct above the long - term average, while global profits have soared even higher.

If oil prices continue to stay above the level assumed in the March 2011 Budget, and commodity prices continue to rise then corporate profits will be higher and the revenue savings resulting from keeping the rate at 18 % could actually be higher than in the Liberal platform.

Personal income tax revenues were up by $ 391 million, or 1.2 %, while corporate income tax revenues were up $ 181 million, or 1.8 %, well above the growth in corporate profits.

The bad guys abound in this horrific tale, from the scientist who knew the lip - pointing practice was dangerous, to the «doctor» who told radioactive women they were «completely healthy,» to the corporate vice president who deliberately suppressed medical reports, to the men who fired women as soon as they became obviously ill — as well as many others who put profits above lives.

After - tax corporate profits currently stand at 9.1 % of GDP, below 2012's 10.8 % peak but still well above the 50 - year average of 6.5 %.

Corporate profit margins are presently 70 percent above the historical mean going back to 1947, as I've discussed earlier (see, for example, Warren Buffett, Jeremy Grantham, and John Hussman...

It's pretty difficult to say you will get returns above and beyond what the general economy will do and what corporate profits will do (those paid to shareholders) over a long period of time with a diversified equity portfolio.

Some astute investors (such as Hussman and GMO) have argued in essence that the combination of record government deficit spending and unemployment levels has propped up corporate revenues while lowering labor costs, thereby boosting corporate profit margins by as much as 70 percent above historical averages.

The present level is about 70 % above that, and can be expected to be followed by a contraction in corporate profits over the coming 4 - year period, at a roughly 12 % annual rate.

Corporate profit margins are presently 70 percent above the historical mean going back to 1947, as I've discussed earlier (see, for example, Warren Buffett, Jeremy Grantham, and John Hussman on Profit, GDP and Competiprofit margins are presently 70 percent above the historical mean going back to 1947, as I've discussed earlier (see, for example, Warren Buffett, Jeremy Grantham, and John Hussman on Profit, GDP and CompetiProfit, GDP and Competition).

In my opinion, you have to be wildly optimistic to believe that corporate profits as a percent of GDP can, for any sustained period, hold much above 6 %.

Coming back to GNP, since even «national» corporate profits are not completely apples - to - apples (the issues mentioned above still apply), I wonder if using these data might actually skew the profit levels upwards since they would capture corporate activity abroad but very little non-corporate activity.

But corporate profit margins are 70 % above their historical norms, and the deviation is — painfully — well explained by its mirror image: the combined deficit in the government and household sectors (the deficit of one sector must, in equilibrium, emerge as the surplus of another).

Now I am clear why HIGH profits are negative for the economy and why — unless deficit spending, money printing or QE INCREASE — then corporate profit margins will collapse, perhaps violently like in 2008/09 — see chart above.

Now, I'd like to argue that we can't come even remotely close to that 12.9 %... In my opinion, you have to be wildly optimistic to believe that corporate profits as a percent of GDP can, for any sustained period, hold much above 6 %.

We are here to challenge corporate power and the rush to further ingrain an energy system that puts short term profits of the few, above the collective needs of the many.

It is clear from the above that the climate change disinformation campaign is only one element in an organized effort of corporations and free market fundamentalists foundations to limit the power of citizen movements to protect human health and the environment when these movements threaten corporate profits or unregulated markets.

What's more, it's now clear that these ideas are not out on the fringe, but are in fact quite widespread — a direct reaction to the inequality, exploitation and environmental degradation that is perpetuated by a corporate agenda placing profit above all else.

I've been a CEO of a publicly - traded company and I climbed the corporate ladder in divisions of private and public multi-national corporations and there is a common thread: the business school maxim that earning a profit is the primary goal is interpreted primarily as a toxic quest for short - term profits above all else, including the long - term health of the business, typically because executive incentive plans are pegged to short - term profit measures.