Alabama Companies Total Pretax Income Increases By a Modest 3% in the First Half of 2019 and Then Plummets To Down 32% in the September 2019 Quarter.

There are 7 Alabama Companies with stock market caps above $1 bil recently.

From a review of SEC filings, below are the Gold-Standard US GAAP Pretax Income (Loss) From Continuing Operations for these 7 Alabama Companies in the September Quarter, the June Quarter and the March Quarter of both 2019 and 2018.

		US	US			US	US			US	US
		GAAP	GAAP			GAAP	GAAP			GAAP	GAAP
		Pretax	Pretax			Pretax	Pretax			Pretax	Pretax
		Income	Income			Income	Income			Income	Income
		(Loss)	(Loss)			(Loss)	(Loss)			(Loss)	(Loss)
		Sept	Sept			June	June			March	March
Alabama Companies	Alabama	Quarter	Quarter			Quarter	Quarter			Quarter	Quarter
Market Caps Above $1 Bil	City HQs	2019	2018			2019	2018			2019	2018
		mils $	mils $			mils $	mils $			mils $	mils $
Vulcan Materials	Birmingham	272	221			246	200			75	48
Regions Financial	Birmingham	516	455			483	467			499	542
Medical Properties Trust	Birmingham	90	739			80	114			74	92
Encompass Health	Birmingham	154	140			135	142			157	136
ServisFirst Bancshares	Birmingham	47	43			45	42			44	40
ProAssurance	Birmingham	11	31			11	28			39	8
Warrior Met Coal	Brookwood	53	53			159	91			138	179
Total all 7 Alabama Cos		1,143	1,682			1,159	1,084			1,026	1,045
….. % Change From Prior Year Quarter		-32%				7%				-2%
First Half 2019		2,185
First Half 2018		2,129
….. % Change From Prior Year Period		3%

Such very weak earnings signals unhealthy future pay raises for the many already underpaid Alabama non-executive employees.

Alabama Company non-executive workers really have had the deck stacked against them for decades versus what is going on with the sky-high annual percentage pay and employee benefit raises of their Companies' Top-Tier Executives.

So which 2020 Democratic Presidential candidate could best help close this massive annual percentage pay raise gap between Alabama Company Top-Tier executives and their already massively underpaid, hardworking Alabama non-executive employees?

More than anything needed to solve this thorny problem is to possess exceptionally strong financial and data science skills, coupled with a keen understanding of how businesses operate.  And you also must have a high degree of  economic fairness. 

Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar all have little if any financial acumen, no data science understanding and little if any understanding of how businesses operate.

Further, all four of them worked for the US Government, particularly in the past ten years, when these comparative pay raise results of Top-Tier Executives and non-executive employees were so horrendous, not just in Alabama but also in every other US State.  

On the positive side, all four of them have a high degree of economic fairness.

Michael Bloomberg has both the financial acumen and the understanding of how businesses operate.  

But he has no data science expertise. 

Also and most important of all, Bloomberg has a low degree of economic fairness.  In the many years he was accumulating his wealth of $60+ bil, US income inequality expanded dramatically in each year by leaps and bounds.  So, like many US business tycoons with their sole fixation on maximization of Company profits, Bloomberg accumulated his massive wealth on the backs of the declining US middle class and the growing number of people dropped to the lower economic class.  And by his punitively racial "Stop and Frisk" policy, many New York City people of color were physically thrown against the wall.

And while he was accumulating his massive amount of wealth, Bloomberg was against unions.

I think there is only one Democratic Presidential candidate who has the requisite financial acumen, data science skills, understanding of how business operate and economic fairness to help turn the tide around on this massive, continuing US income inequality expansion caused mainly by the massive gap in annual percentage pay raises between executive and non-executive employees  ..... Pete Buttigieg.