News coverage of the just-released 4th Quarter CEO Economic Outlook Survey (available here)... USA TODAY, "CEOs grow more bullish on economy": Corporate CEOs are growing more optimistic about the economy, and a budget deal in Washington would help push next year's growth higher, according to a... Continue Reading
Business Roundtable President John Engler held a media briefing Tuesday on the current budget negotiations and Congress' agenda for 2014. Key point: Solve the immediate budget and debt ceiling issues and then move on to a 2014 economic growth agenda that embraces tax and entitlement reform. A... Continue Reading
Doug Oberhelman, Chairman and CEO of Caterpillar Inc., gave a notable speech last week at the World Affairs Council of Atlanta. News coverage ... OnlineAthens.com, "Caterpillar CEO says U.S. taxes, regulations hamper business": ATLANTA — American manufacturing is hindered in global... Continue Reading
Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt of General Electric offered some words of wisdom to leaders in Washington in a Bloomberg TV interview today. Asked by interviewer Tom Keene what kind of presidential leadership he would like to see, Immelt spoke broadly about Washington: It begins with talking with... Continue Reading
The media were quick to report as fact the surprising claim of a GAO study last May that U.S. companies paid an average effective tax rate far below the 35 percent statutory rate. The Business Roundtable didn't believe the results then and noted our own concerns in a letter to Ways and Means... Continue Reading