Sentences with phrase «owners of capital»

If we're the ultimate owners of the capital markets, why can't we make some waves?

The contrast between the growth of returns to the national owners of capital and the drastic fall in the income of popular households has reached historic proportions for the 20th century.

The basic idea is that while most economists believe corporate taxes are primarily paid by owners of capital (that is, people who own stock in corporations) in the form of lower profits, a sizable minority, including White House chief economist Kevin Hassett, think that a lower tax rate would spark so much additional investment in the United States that it would bid up wages and leave the middle class better off through its indirect effects.

But the key theme in the design of the Republican tax bill is that the business tax cuts are designed to benefit owners of capital first, with workers as an afterthought.

If there is anything to be learned from the financial crisis of 2008/09 it is that we need to adopt a more harshly capitalist system for owners of capital and ring wall with a safety net those who are only two - bit players (some would say pawns) in the system.

So part of the cost of the US corporate income tax can be shifted to global owners of capital.

Then there would be no reason for corps to pay that to execs and there would be more in dividends for stockholders — the actual owners of capital.

Since private owners of capital were not inclined to be philanthropic, the government had to hold out inducements to them to invest their money by giving them land grants and making them loans of five of the seven major roads.

Force the stewards of capital — the boards and officers — to recognize the rights of shareholders — the rightful owners of that capital.

However, the partners who own law firms have come to see their positions as primarily those of employees terminable at will, rather than owners of a capital investment.

Warren Vandenameele, broker / owner of Capital Commodities Realty, has acquired the Royal LePage brokerage in Yorkton, Sask.

The basic idea is that while most economists believe corporate taxes are primarily paid by owners of capital (that is, people who own stock in corporations) in the form of lower profits, a sizable minority, including White House chief economist Kevin Hassett, think that a large share of the tax is paid by workers in the form of lower wages.

«I think there will be great breakthroughs but the distribution of those gains will go to owners of capital and intellectual property.»

Although I'm not a tax expert and it is certainly not the central banker's job to give advice on tax, what we can say is that if the gains that come from productivity are being given to the owners of capital as opposed to workers, it does raise the issue about the relative taxation of those two sources.

Moreover, as a logic of the market led production, the interest of the owners of capital is met at the expense of the majority.

While capitalistic globalization confers many advantages to the owners of capital and the local elites of both rich and poor countries, with the availability of more consumer goods and their participation in the TNC - led businesses, it has gravely harmful effects on the poorer sections of almost all societies.

Now the rich companies and owners of capital can still roam the world and buy up land and resources, but the poor people can not move away from where they are to the richer and under utilized lands such as that of the Americas and Australia.

The owners of capital invest where national policies and situations make such investment most attractive.

The system works to make the resources, natural and human, benefit the owners of capital.

As a class system in which the the owners of capital have the whip hand, running capitalism against capital is like using a whisk to mix cement.

Last week's attack on the rental sector was a very direct appropriation of Piketty's thesis, kicking the owners of capital («rentiers» is in fact one of Piketty's go - to bits of jargon) to help the worse off in society.

Since America is a country built on a great deal of capital, we should all be owners of some capital.

There seems to be a disconnect: Owners of capital should be demanding an overwhelming value bias8 in their portfolios.

«The determination of whether capital not needed in the business is to remain there or to be withdrawn, should be made in the first instance by the owners of the capital rather than by those administering [it].»

«That each individual should be poetically the owner of the capital of the world.»

On one side are the transnational corporations, agribusiness, and mining interests that promote the destruction of our forests and water sources in the name of a «progress» that benefits only the owners of capital.

Human society is an arena of constant struggle not between workers and owners of capital for the means of production but rather between the masses and authoritarians of every kind.