The profits prophet
A new book explains why business investment has been low
PROFITS have been booming in America, reaching the highest proportion of GDP since the second world war. Given such buoyant conditions, you might imagine that businesses are investing like crazy to take advantage of all those great opportunities.
This article appeared in the Finance & economics section of the print edition under the headline “The profits prophet”
From the October 5th 2013 edition
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