Profits are too high. America needs a giant dose of competition
...and those profits are not being reinvested in new projects, new ventures, and new markets.<p>Instead, large corporations have been accumulating historically high amounts of cash, which is just sitting on their balance sheets, idle.[1]<p>It&#x27;s definitely <i>not</i> due to lack of greed.  Corporations in the US are very much driven by profit motives: whenever they identify an opportunity to make a profit from customers, they take advantage of it.<p>Therefore, <i>it must be</i> that they aren&#x27;t identifying enough attractive opportunities in which to invest that growing mountain of cash.<p>Meanwhile, the US middle class appears to be struggling with stagnant wages and limited opportunity.[2]<p>We have engine trouble, and no agreement on how to fix it.<p>--<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;Publications&#x2F;Regional-Economist&#x2F;January-2013&#x2F;Why-Are-Corporations-Holding-So-Much-Cash" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;Publications&#x2F;Regional-Economist&#x2F;J...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;local&#x2F;happy-days-no-more-middle-class-families-squeezed-as-expenses-soar-wages-stall&#x2F;2014&#x2F;04&#x2F;26&#x2F;f4a857f0-7a47-11e3-b1c5-739e63e9c9a7_story.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;local&#x2F;happy-days-no-more-midd...</a>