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10:08 AM, Mar 22, 2012 • By MICHAEL WARRENJohn Engler, the former three-term governor of Michigan and current president of the Business Roundtable, calls the House Republican budget proposal a "courageous exercise" and says it has "intriguing ideas" regarding tax and entitlement reforms.
"I think the budget itself is a...courageous exercise," Engler told reporters at a breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor. He went on to praise House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan's efforts to address runaway entitlement spending, calling it "pretty responsible."
"My question is, who is Ryan negotiating with?" Engler added, noting that he wants to see an alternative from the Democrats in order to foster a debate about tax reform and entitlement spending.
Engler has been president of the Business Roundtable, an association of CEOs and business leaders, since 2010.
The slightly scandalous memoir of a business pioneer. Feb 13, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 21 • By MYRNA BLYTHAn appropriate accompaniment to this season’s return of Mad Men is Jane Maas’s entertaining and rueful memoir of what it was like to be an advertising woman in the 1960s and ’70s. Maas, a star copywriter who became a creative director and president of an agency, is best known for being the “mother” of the successful “I Love New York” campaign.
Read more... 2:15 PM, Dec 2, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPEREarlier this week, on Monday, the advocacy group USA*Engage sent a letter to each of the 100 Senate offices. The organization’s intention was clear: to prevent the U.S. from imposing economic sanctions on Iran.
Read more... 12:00 AM, Nov 19, 2011 • By IRWIN M. STELZERThe average American family is not going to cancel a trip to Disneyland because of headlines about “something going on in Italy or France,” says James Bullard, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
Read more... 4:31 PM, Oct 11, 2011 • By MICHAEL WARRENThe Omaha World-Herald has a profile of presidential candidate Herman Cain's time at the helm of Godfather's Pizza:
Cain's speech-making was his most visible role at Godfather's, which today is a steady performer with 620 locations in the tough restaurant franchise business.
Read more... 2:43 PM, Aug 26, 2011 • By JEFFREY H. ANDERSON
In the Washington Post, Camden Fine, president and chief executive of the Independent Community Bankers of America, writes, “I was astounded this month when the Federal Reserve announced its intention to keep interest rates at zero percent for at least the next two years. I kept staring at that number, 2013, assuming that it was a mistake.” He continues, “In my view, the Fed’s policy is nothing more than a backdoor bailout for the Wall Street mega-banks and investment houses; it amounts to the back of the hand for the community banks of this country.”
Read more... Introducing the Regulation Moratorium and Job Preservation Act12:20 PM, Aug 5, 2011 • By MARK HEMINGWAYLately there's been a spate of businessmen loudly complaining about the burdensome regulatory climate of the Obama administration. Fortunately, there's at least one highly experienced businessman in the Senate that feels their pain. Until he was elected last fall, Wisconsin Republican Ron Johnson was CEO of a plastics manufacturing company and knows all about the problems of excess regulation.
Read more... 10:07 PM, Jul 21, 2011 • By MARK HEMINGWAYJohn Merline of Investor's Business Daily interviews Bernie Marcus, the co-founder of Home Depot. Marcus tells IBD that Home Depot "would never have succeeded" as a retail business if it were founded today because of the regulatory burden. Here's a taste of the interview:
Read more... 4:22 PM, Jul 12, 2011 • By JIM PREVOR
Alan Blinder’s Wall Street Journal column today, “Our National Jobs Emergency,” unwittingly provides an answer to why all the Obama administration’s machinations to improve our economy have failed.
Read more... 9:29 AM, Mar 25, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPERGeneral Electric paid no American taxes in 2010, the New York Times reports:
The company reported worldwide profits of $14.2 billion, and said $5.1 billion of the total came from its operations in the United States.
Read more... 12:24 PM, Aug 9, 2010 • By THOMAS J. PYLE
At a Washington, D.C. event earlier this week, Gulf State residents feeling neglected by policies that punish workers in the oil and gas sector sent Congress a simple message: “My Job Matters.”
Read more... Obama is out of ammunition – money.12:00 AM, Jul 17, 2010 • By IRWIN M. STELZER
President Obama wants to declare a truce in his war on the business community. And, well, he might.
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