Cockburn: Can war save the economy?

[Chris Kromm]

Doug said:
> Profitability for non-financial corps rose pretty steadily from 1982
> to 1997, and has been going sideways to down since.

What are the overall trendlines on this since 1967/8? I've heard competing
stats. (And yes, I know that Mr. Marx said it was only a *tendency* for the
rate to fall...)