Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Feldstein said Nordhaus based his pessimistic conclusion about the fate of capitalism on the declining share of the gross national product accounted for by corporate profits while he, Feldstein, measured the rate of profits as a return on invested capital. He said his study included data about the profit rate in 1974 that was unavailable to Nordhaus...
Feldstein said his study also differed in that he ran his findings through a computer in a test to determine the profit trend over a period of time, and substantiate his theory, while Nordhaus...
...what does the nation?and history?profit from this uniquely modern electronic means of eliciting a personal accounting from a discredited President? Certainly, after viewing the series, millions will be forcefully reminded of the high personal price Nixon has paid. Yet he is destined to fail in these interviews to persuade any but his partisan followers that his Watergate lies and, yes, crimes, were the result of mere failures of judgment. If these same televised questions and answers could somehow have been transformed into a court of law, any reasonable jury would almost certainly have found Nixon guilty of participating...
...Silver Profit. Commodity speculation is nothing new to the brothers. Three years ago they briefly held dominance over the silver futures market, and reaped a handsome profit as prices rose. The CFTC appears to fear a similar coup in soybeans. It charged that if the Hunts held on to all their positions, "price distortion or manipulation activity ... could cause serious injury to the American public," presumably by forcing soybean prices skyhigh. Nelson Bunker Hunt views the action against him as a political maneuver. Snorts Hunt: "Dozens of families trade like this. If your name is Hunt...
...tertiary methods, which involve pumping water or solvent chemicals into wells can bring out much more. In recognition of the high cost of such "enhanced" recovery, the Carter energy program would free oil produced by those methods from domestic price controls, thereby rewarding the producer with a handsome potential profit...