Corporate profits evolution

This is basically why this system has to change. It is intrinsically unsustainable.

Murder, Inequality, Corporate Profits and Free Trade Go Together

http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/896866/murder%2C_inequality%2C_corporate_profits_and_free_trade_go_together/

You can see the beginnings of financialization and globalization in the early 1970s. The trade gap gradually expanded during the Reagan Presidency in the 1980s, then the gap began widening after Clinton signed NAFTA and really took off in the late 1990s after American businesses figured out how to do business in China (after Clinton let China into the WTO). Then there was an explosion of the trade deficit and corporate profits after Bush came into office in 2000. This system briefly collapsed during the recession of 2007-2009. President Obama's policy framework resuscitated this architecture of corporate profits at the expense of workers' paychecks and, well, lives.

No.CptJSparrow

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themajormayor

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I don't understand what the blue line is showing. Is it showing exports going up (hence the widening of the gap), or is it showing exports going down because the numbers are negative?Crunchy_Nuts

No?

I don't understand what the blue line is showing. Is it showing exports going up (hence the widening of the gap), or is it showing exports going down because the numbers are negative?Crunchy_Nuts

[QUOTE="Crunchy_Nuts"]I don't understand what the blue line is showing. Is it showing exports going up (hence the widening of the gap), or is it showing exports going down because the numbers are negative?themajormayor

I don't understand what the blue line is showing. Is it showing exports going up (hence the widening of the gap), or is it showing exports going down because the numbers are negative?Crunchy_Nuts

Blue line is net exports and it is going down. We are importing more than we are exporting.