Business Insider: Corporate Profits Just Hit An All-Time High, Wages Just Hit An All-Time Low

[Tony_FLADEM]

In case you need more confirmation that the US economy is out of balance, here are three charts for you.

1) Corporate profit margins just hit an all-time high. Companies are making more per dollar of sales than they ever have before. (And some people are still saying that companies are suffering from "too much regulation" and "too many taxes." Maybe little companies are, but big ones certainly aren't).



Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/corporate-profits-just-hit-an-all-time-high-wages-just-hit-an-all-time-low-2012-6#ixzz1zNy0P28F

[TBF]

1. Funny how that works ... nt

[Ruby the Liberal]

2. Broken Clock Blodget has a great piece on this, arguing for bottom up

as opposed to the old trickle down.

He uses these graphs and quite a few others.

http://www.businessinsider.com/economy-companies-wages-2012-6

[Marr]

3. It's almost as if there's only so much to go around...

If I didn't know better, I'd almost think it's not *possible* for us all to be filthy, idle rich.