{"id":2985,"date":"2013-01-17T10:53:29","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T15:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2985"},"modified":"2013-01-17T10:53:29","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T15:53:29","slug":"corporate-profits-have-grown-by-171-percent-under-anti-business-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/01\/corporate-profits-have-grown-by-171-percent-under-anti-business-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporate Profits Have Grown By 171 Percent Under &#8216;Anti-Business&#8217; Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/10\/obama-slams-gop-claim-america-can%e2%80%99t-compete-%e2%80%9ci%e2%80%99m-not-going-to-surrender-to-other-countries-%e2%80%9d\/attachment\/623\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-623\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-623\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/obama-articleLarge-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Business executives like to portray the Obama administration as the \u201cmost anti-business\u201d in history, creating an \u201cincreasingly hostile environment for investment and job creation.\u201d However, the data tells a far different story. According to a Bloomberg News analysis, corporate profits have grown by 171 percent under Obama, the most in the post-war era:<\/p>\n<p>U.S. corporations\u2019 after-tax profits have grown by 171 percent under Obama, more than under any president since World War II, and are now at their highest level relative to the size of the economy since the government began keeping records in 1947, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:<\/strong>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2013\/01\/17\/1461871\/corporate-profits-anti-business-obama\/\">Corporate Profits Have Grown By 171 Percent<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business executives like to portray the Obama administration as the \u201cmost anti-business\u201d in history, creating an \u201cincreasingly hostile environment for investment and job creation.\u201d However, the data tells a far different story. According to a Bloomberg News analysis, corporate profits have grown by 171 percent under Obama, the most in the post-war era: U.S. corporations\u2019&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,22,20],"tags":[1175,1613],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2985"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2986,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2985\/revisions\/2986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}