Corporate profit share keeps expanding while the share of business output paid to workers falls, so earnings hold up better than wage-driven demand models predict and the gap keeps converting into political pressure for taxes, price controls and labour rules in successive election cycles.
forming · confidence 36 · Emerging (watchlist) · tracking since August 28, 2026 · updated August 28, 2026
US corporate profits rose $400.9 billion in the second quarter to a postwar-high share of output even as the labour share fell, the backdrop framing new Fed chair Kevin Warsh's first Jackson Hole address.
Supporting · August 28, 2026
Warsh Delivers His First Jackson Hole Speech With US Profits at a Postwar High
US corporate profits rose $400.9 billion in the second quarter to a postwar-high share of output even as the labour share fell, the backdrop framing new Fed chair Kevin Warsh's first Jackson Hole address.
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