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US profits are 11.4% of GDP against a 7.4% long run mean
The ratio is computed from two published BEA series and is not itself a BEA publication. It roughly doubled between the 1986 low and the 2021 high. Sources: BEA corporate profits after tax and BEA nominal GDP.
The US national accounts count profits across every American corporation, public and private. After tax profits now run at 11.4% of GDP, against a mean of 7.4% since 1947. The share re-rated after 2000, averaging 9.9% since, and has not come back.
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