They extracted profits by following a variation of the principle long pursued by their Chinese counterparts: lend without hesitation while extracting your cut, confident that the government is on the hook for the losses.
"We have a right to know what happened when companies go bankrupt," a reference to deals in which Mr. Romney's private equity firm, Bain Capital, cut workers and extracted profits from factories and retailers that later failed.
By the time Mr. Gingrich made his first appearance after the flight, in Rock Hill, S.C., he thundered, "We have a right to know what happened when companies go bankrupt," referring to deals in which Bain supposedly laid off workers and extracted profits from companies that later failed.
Denmark, which extracted profits from its colonies but has no sizeable Virgin Islander population, has not.
Romney's team extracted profits, reduced employee levels, and by 2001 the company was forced into liquidation.
It is hard not to be moved by the recent Obama ads that portray Romney as a cold-blooded capitalist whose company, Bain Capital, single-mindedly extracted profits from businesses regardless of the human cost.
It is to extract profit from struggle.
Even worse, these tech giants extract profit without paying tax in some of the world's poorest countries.
It's a way for companies to demonstrate they are alive and not just an entity working to extract profit.
Sonja Gibbs, a strategist at Nomura Securities, said there continued to be "tremendous uncertainty about market direction and an unwillingness to extract profit from disaster".
