While U.S. citizens have been struggling with rising inflation over the past few months, corporations have reportedly netted record profits during the same period. Aftertax profits as a share of gross value added for nonfinancial corporations—a measure of aggregate profit margins—rose to 15.5 percent in the second quarter from 14 percent in the first quarter,…

While American citizens have been struggling with rising inflation over the past few months, corporations have reportedly netted record profits during the same period. Aftertax profits as a share of gross value added for nonfinancial corporations—a measure of aggregate profit margins—rose to 15.5 percent in the second quarter from 14 percent in the first, according…