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It’s nothing a grand profit-sharing plan wouldn’t fix, if there are any modern Henry Fords out there interested in restoring the balance between capital and labor.

From Barron's ● May 20, 2026

A cull of these half-dead businesses is freeing up capital and labor for more entrepreneurial, productive firms, while also allowing those healthier companies to improve their own profitability.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

“They were able to provide services better with the capital and labor they had on hand,” said another study co-author, Marcella Alsan, a professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2025

Andrew Jackson, slayer of the national bank, intensified tensions between capital and labor, and between elites and the rest.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2023

Much greater effects than “charity” could realise would be produced by a wise alteration of our Land Laws, which would lead to the application of fresh capital and labor to the cultivation of the soil.

From Salvation Syrup; Or, Light On Darkest England by G. W. (George William) Foote




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