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How Corporate America Will Spend $4 Trillion In 2025
Money. Companies exist to make it. Or at least that's the way it is in the US.
Companies do other things too, but it's not a coincidence that "bottom line" is a synonym for "crux" in America.
Let's say you're a company and you exemplify your raison d'être, which is to say you make a lot of money. The question you ask yourself next is, "What do we do with it?"
In theory, you could give some of it -- or even most of it -- back to your employees, which is to say to the people who actually manuf
Is there a whiff of optimism when you say “as long as the CEO can tell some semi-plausible story…”
Jamie Dimon a few years ago said corporations are there not only for shareholders. The other stakeholders are as or more important including employees and vendors. Not the theory of capitalism I was taught in school, but as a highly compensated employee he has a take on it that might not server shareholders all the time. I suspect however his reference to employees was not for the lowest compensated people.