When there’s more capital in the private sector and less in the public sector, the economy is stronger and more wealth will be created. Don’t underestimate how big this news is. It’s huge.
Dang: U.S. corporate profits up 16 percent in Q2 2018 compared with Q2 2017
I suppose this won’t be considered happy news by the likes of Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez. But the rest of us should be thrilled about it.
When corporate profits tick up a percentage point or two on a year-over-year basis, that’s a significant development. When they jump 16 percent on a year-over-year basis, that’s a monster development. If you look at news like this through a political lens, you’ll fret over “winners and losers” and that sort of thing. If you understand anything about economics and capital formation, you’ll understand that this presents a gigantic injection of new capital into the productive private sector.