Dear Colleagues, I have just posted a first draft of a longish (27,000 word) paper at http://akliman.squarespace.com/persistent-fall It's entitled "The Persistent Fall in Profitability Underlying the Current Crisis: New Temporalist Evidence." It looks at the rates of profit of U.S. corporations, 1929-2007, with emphasis on the period since the early 1980s. The accompanying spreadsheet files will be posted at the same location soon, as soon as I can clean them up. Comments are welcome. Best, Andrew