Graph showing how corporate profits rose and investment declined as a share of GDP Evolution of investment and corporate profits as a fraction of GDP Sizes: 150 × 150 / 300 × 170 / 768 × 435 / 1,024 × 580 / 1,523 × 863 / 1,523 × 863 / 100 × 55 / 175 × 131 / 882 × 500 / 1,523 × 863 Investment (blue line) and corporate profits (red line) with the trend lines.