1.   A recession would knock the bottom out of corporate profits.

2.   Accordingly, business owners often prefer to take out most corporate profits as salary.

3.   Analysts generally agree that the fundamental economic factors that produce corporate profits remain strong.

4.   And higher rates also tend to crimp corporate profits, by raising the cost of borrowing.

5.   And, if the lower rates succeed in improving the economy, corporate profits will rise.

6.   Consumers, investors and workers have all threatened corporate profit in different ways, with varying degrees of success.

7.   Corporate profits are soaring to new heights, but so is income inequality.

8.   Corporate profits have been hurt by slack demand.

9.   Higher interest rates often raise concern about slower economic growth and weaker corporate profits.

10.   Interest rates are low, inflation seems whipped, job growth is strong, corporate profits are soaring.