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As the S&P500 hits its highest corporate profit margin ever recorded at 17% we must remember the quote from Adam Smith, father of capitalism “Rate of profit is always highest in countries which are going fastest to ruin”

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/08/13/these-charts-show-why-stocks-keep-rallying-profit-margins-are-highest-on-record.html