Business associations found much to comment upon in President Obama's State of the Union address. In general, the tone was positive. A roundup: Business Roundtable, President John Engler statement, "BRT: SOTU Strikes Encouraging Notes on Jobs and Growth; Now It's Time for Action": Growth and... Continue Reading
America's debt and other fiscal problems remain "one dark cloud that sits over the U.S. economy," Dow Chemical's CEO -- and Business Roundtable vice chairman -- Andrew Liveris said today in a CNBC interview from the World Economic Forum in Davos. A good exchange followed with CNBC's Andrew Ross... Continue Reading
Congress and the White House prevented the fiscal cliff, but the final agreement does too little on spending. A roundup: From Business Roundtable's statement: H.R. 8 only just begins to address the scale of the fiscal and spending problems confronting our country and falls short as economic... Continue Reading
Business Roundtable President John Engler today rebuts a Dec. 21 Wall Street Journal column by Kimberly Strassel, which wrongly claimed that “Big Business Sells out Small Business.” On the contrary, Engler writes in a letter to the editor, “The only goal of Business Roundtable CEOs on the... Continue Reading
BRT President John Engler joined leaders of other trade associations for a White House meeting on the "fiscal cliff." “I’d just say that both sides have to work this out,” Engler told Bloomberg as he departed the White House. “This is for the nation.” News coverage ... Bloomberg, "White... Continue Reading