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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: RAMc ✭  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: 22 years of underwriting earnings
Date: 03/05/23 3:36 PM
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I believe that raddish's Export Text macro for excel would work.
I'll give it a try. pasted your data with corrections into Excel and used the macro.
                 2022   2021   2020   2019   2018   2017   2016   2015   2014   2013    2012
Premiums 74645 69478 63401 61078 57418 60597 45881 41294 41253 36684 34545
Earnings -98 936 838 417 2010 -3239 2131 1837 2668 3089 1625
% -0.1% 1.3% 1.3% 0.7% 3.5% -5.3% 4.6% 4.4% 6.5% 8.4% 4.7%

2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001
Premiums 32075 30749 27884 25525 31783 23964 21997 21085 21493 19182 17905
Earnings 248 2013 1460 2792 3374 3838 53 1551 1618 -400 -4067
% 0.8% 6.5% 5.2% 10.9% 10.6% 16.0% 0.2% 7.4% 7.5% -2.1% -22.7%

22-yr average: 3.2%


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