The results show how the central bank’s unconventional monetary policy has turned it in to the most profitable bank in history

Yes, there are a couple of interesting recent postings up at the Adam Smith Institute blog, both involving falling prices and falling profits. Tim Worstall writes about why the solar power business is not proving very profitable. This is not, he argues, because solar power is rubbish. It's just that making the kit to capture it is not that hard, the price of such kit is falling all the time, ...

Former Fed chief and architect of the proposed ban on banks' proprietary trading says: 'It's going to sound odd but I'd like to see banks being reasonably profitable'

The head of Watson says the high costs of growing scrutiny by the FDA was pushing suppliers to stop manufacturing less profitable drugs

The Czech Republic's intention to hand out free CO2 allowances to CEZ, an already profitable energy company, would turn it into a dominant actor on the EU energy market and paradoxically threaten competition, writes Barbora Hanzlova, from the CEE Bankwatch Network. More »

Higher charges, cherry-picking of the most profitable customers and the end of "free banking" are all touted as potential implications of the Independent Commission on

John Denham MP, Labour’s Shadow Business Secretary, in a keynote speech on the role of the companies in the UK economy, will argue the lasting success of the UK economy will depend on the spread of the “good company” &# profitable businesses and corporations which add value both to the economy and to society by being good at what they do, not exclusively focused on the bottom lin...

Understanding each other's heritage will lead to a profitable partnership for China and Scotland

Telegraph View: The Government must avoid an over-reaction that would harm the competitiveness of the country's most profitable sector.

Hungary kept on pursuing sensible moderate measures, instead of punishing the population. They imposed taxes on the hugely profitable sectors of retail, energy and telecoms, and took funds from private pensions to pay the deficit. Stealing peoples’ pensions is “moderate” in HariLand. So when in 2001 the IMF found out the Malawian government had built