Obama budget declares election-year tax battle
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will seek billions of dollars for jobs and infrastructure in his 2013 budget, an appeal to voters that draws election-year battle lines over taxes and spending as Republicans slammed him for "debt, doubt and decline." Obama's budget proposal, which he will submit to Congress on Monday, will project a much smaller deficit in 2013 compared with this ...
Will the Government Put Money Market Funds Out of Business?
Immediately after Lehman Brothers failed, a money market mutual fund called Reserve Primary "broke…
NFCorp is Telling a 'Cock & Bull' Story
NFCorp Chief Executive Wan Shahinur Izmir said the corporation has the right to use the government's RM250 million soft loan as it sees fit, based on its 2007 deal with Putrajaya. He made the statement on the back of new allegations of the fund being used to purchase two luxury condominiums in Singapore. Izmir said NFCorp has been given a free hand to manage its business as long as it repaid the ...
Chicago Man Rescuing Yale Business Ranking Prompts Anxiety
When Marion McCollom Hampton graduated from the Yale School of Management in 1982, the program didn’t grant business degrees and she didn’t want one. Its mission was to train leaders of all sorts, not just executives, she said.
Chicago Man Rescuing Yale Business Rank Prompts Ethical Anxiety
When Marion McCollom Hampton graduated from the Yale School of Management in 1982, the program didn’t grant business degrees and she didn’t want one. Its mission was to train leaders of all sorts, not just executives, she said.
Coastal Voices: Make DN sales tax-free zone
Last week, friends asked my wife and me to join them in Brookings and do some shopping. As the perpetual cheerleader for Crescent City, I asked them what’s up there in Brookings that we don’t have in Crescent City. “Roger, I go up there every week, fill up my gas tank at Fred Meyer and do a little shopping. There’s no sales tax!” I suspect there are many in our community who regularly travel to ...