Showing posts with label Corporate Profits. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Corporate Profits. Show all posts

Monday, August 30, 2010

Graph of the Day: Corporate Profits

So, you may be wondering why Oregon might be on a position to refund $40 million to corporations while at the same time slash spending on state services like education?  Well here is the picture worth a thousand words: corporate profits are back a pre-recession levels while personal incomes, thanks to persistent and high unemployment, are still very depressed.


This graph is from the NY Times' Economix Blog.

PS: Is a question mark the appropriate stop after the first sentence?  I think so...

UPDATE: A commentator asked if this is the same for Oregon - yes.  Here you go (from the Office of Economic Analysis)