Chart: Pre- and post-tax profit margins of nonfinancial corporate business sector, 1958–2011 | Economic Policy Institute

Figure D

Pre- and post-tax profit margins of nonfinancial corporate business sector, 1958–2011

Source: Author's analysis of BEA (2011), Table 1.1.5

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