The economical influence of the Soviet Union was highlighted by the creation of the SovRom companies, which directed Romania's commercial exchanges towards unprofitable markets.
The merge allowed CUB to raise prices and remain profitable in what had been an unprofitable market.
He also shrunk Aetna's customer base from 19 million members to 13 million by abandoning unprofitable markets, including almost half of the counties nationwide in which it offered Medicare products.
Since 1997, more than 20 insurance companies have stopped writing policies in New Jersey, saying that the state's maze of regulations made it an unprofitable market.
And it doesn't mean that you stay in an unprofitable market.
It gave black and Hispanic managers substantial authority over its unprofitable inner-city markets.
But with the American market increasingly unprofitable, few expect that to happen this time.
And the company is also considering closing some of its unprofitable markets.
But almost all of the decline came from the company's continued weakness in the unprofitable small-car market, in which it faces competition from low-cost Korean imports.
Since 1997, more than 20 insurance companies have fled the state, claiming New Jersey's labyrinthine regulations rendered the market unprofitable.