This created powerful barriers to public investment, as government spending was siphoned into massive profits for banks and their shareholders.

The Defense Dividend

With so much largesse to spread around, the government became a source of contracts with annuity like earnings, which offered robust returns for those with political access.

That's a simple bottom line business plan.

In the UK, the profits of financial intermediaries, which had averaged around 1.5 of the whole economy s profits in the 1970 s, reached 15 in 2008.

By the year 2000, the process was perfected. They merged with AOL, and in just four years, managed to shed about 200 billion dollars of market capitalization, showing that they'd actually mastered the art of applying Moore's law of successive miniaturization to their balance sheet.

João's exploration policies (see below) also paid great dividends.

I am strong, I know I am.

I know I m strong, I ve always been.

In the US, bank profits were an even larger share of the total.

Russians pay for this consumption from the profits of gas and oil.

Profits for drug traffickers downstream will be almost 20 times that amount.

There are no income, estate or capital gains taxes.

Abuse of public authority for private gain is not acceptable.

Their implications for gains by Africa vary, depending on what the agreements are.

Profits for this operation were not used for the benefit of ordinary Somalis living in the area.

There is much too much competition for that position.

The competition is fierce.

But the Indian decision also means less money for the big multinational pharmaceutical companies.

Trucks sales accounts for a big slice of Ford's profits, according to USA Today.

Meanwhile, corporate profits have soared. The GDP share of after tax corporate profits is at a nbsp record high, whereas labor compensation has plunged to its lowest share since 1950.

Against that background, it is not surprising that pay in the financial sector soared.

And the US financial sector, in greasing the wheels of the real economy, has been soaking up an astounding 30 of corporate profits and 10 of wages.

A dividend is a payment made by a corporation to its shareholders, usually as a distribution of profits.

Pecuniary sanctions should be severe enough to eliminate a cartel's gains.

It was such a shock.

I'm so itchy.

She is a cheerful, talented, strong person.

I want to say beautiful

Tamaulipas, a stronghold State

Most of the corporate profits came from financing consumer automobile loans through Ford Motor Credit Company.

Again, I m strong.

A strong communication strategy could not be achieved without an equally strong news infrastructure.

Corporate profits are bursting at the seams of investors expectations in virtually every corner of the world.

Meanwhile, existing and newly created jobs provide less of an earnings upside.

The fall in value is believed to be connected to the 66 drop in the company profits in two quarters of the previous year.

New technologies and increased fishing effort are not necessarily leading to higher profits in the longline fishery.

Moreover, after the stock market crash, the maximum tax on dividends paid on stocks was slashed from 35 to 15 , giving a substantial new advantage to long term investors and boosting the compounding effect of reinvesting after tax dividends.

It's a very, very strong force.

It is very powerful. It is very exciting.

Japan has economically become a powerful nation.

What a strong wind!

But there are strong grounds for optimism.

Is China Strong or Weak?

Sharif is planning a grand entrance.