# Profits Take a Postwar-High Share From Labour

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.

- Conviction: 36 / 100 (forming)
- Horizon: Emerging (watchlist)
- Tracking since: 2026-08-28T00:00:00.000Z
- Last updated: 2026-08-28T06:18:22.946Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/trends/capital-share-widens-vs-labor
- Publisher: Polylog
- Affected regions: Global

## Recent evidence

- [confirms] Warsh Delivers His First Jackson Hole Speech With US Profits at a Postwar High (2026-08-28): 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.