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...
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Professor Matthew Slaughter of Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business has a provocative op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal, "Exports Sagging?...
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A day after President Barack Obama delivered his Inaugural Address, the news from Nebraska reminds us of another important speech from the president.
Today, Gov. Dave Heineman of Nebraska announced his approval of a new route for the Keystone XL Pipeline through the state, one...
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Business Roundtable has joined the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and National Association of Minerals to challenge the Security and Exchange Commission's rule that imposes new, enormously expensive rules on businesses, demanding that they report any use of "conflict minerals" in their products....
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Business Roundtable-member CEOs Gary Loveman of Caesars Entertainment and Randall Stephenson of AT&T briefed reporters Wednesday on BRT's recommendations to modernize Social Security and Medicare, reforms necessary to preserve the programs while putting the United States on a long-term...
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