Encouraged by a booming demand for construction equipment, Mike Haberman was planning in early February to hire at least 30 more workers for the manufacturing facility of his Gradall Industries in Ohio.
U.S. companies with more cash on their balance sheets thanks to tax reform are coming under greater scrutiny from activist investors, a top Goldman Sachs Group Inc. investment banker said this week.
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey urged the U.S. Bureau of the Census to reject a request by the U.S. Department of Justice to add a question about citizenship to the 2020 census, warning that undercounting the population would undermine states’ rights and threaten billions of dollars in critical federal funding.
NIMBY suburbanites, rejoice: President Donald Trump has your back. The Trump administration just took a big step toward gutting a noble Obama-era initiative, one that required cities and towns across the country to submit plans for tackling racial segregation and inequality in housing.
The Trump Tax Act – referred to by almost no one as the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” – contains a veritable Noah’s Ark of changes, many affecting the real estate industry, and nearly all as difficult to digest as grandma’s holiday fruitcake.
The National Association of Realtors (NAR) published a Tax Cuts and Jobs Act explainer for its members. It outlines the mostly negative, but also positive impacts the plan is expected to have on members and their clients. The explainer also highlights changes the NAR successfully lobbied for.
U.S. consumer spending accelerated in November and shipments of key capital goods orders increased for the 10th straight month, the latest signs of strong momentum in the economy as the year winds down.
Who could have imagined that President Donald Trump’s version of “tax reform” would turn out to be nothing more than a massive stick-up of blue states like Massachusetts? It’s not like the guy is vindictive or anything.
The budget deficit is proving to be a major obstacle to the tax reform plan being offered by President Donald Trump and top congressional Republicans, with one leading Senate hawk saying a week after the plan was introduced that any enlarging of the fiscal gap could kill his support.
After a turbulent year of anti-globalization backlash, central bankers still argue open borders and free trade are the key to more jobs, growth and prosperity.
Saying the status quo is holding down economic and job growth, President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order aimed at streamlining environmental reviews and permitting of major infrastructure projects and establishing a two-year goal for such processes.
But we threw it down the memory hole!
HUD might be in for a surprise under Trump’s new budget.
President Donald Trump will ask the U.S. Congress for dramatic cuts to many federal programs as he seeks to bulk up defense spending, start building a wall on the border with Mexico and spend more money deporting illegal immigrants.
President Donald Trump’s review of post-crisis banking rules could sound the death knell for new global standards now being finalized and rip apart a common approach to regulating international lenders, bankers and regulators said.
President Donald Trump will huddle with chief executives of major U.S. companies on Friday as the business community finds itself increasingly split over how to respond to his policies.
U.S. bankers, buoyed by a resurgence in profits, are advising their counterparts in Europe to think positively about the new administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey has joined a coalition of nine attorneys general in urging the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee to oppose the confirmation of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, calling him “manifestly unsuited for the role.”
The overall economic growth of New England in 2016 mirrored that of the U.S., according to a presentation by the New England Economic Partnership (NEEP) at its annual Economic Outlook Conference, held yesterday at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
The U.S. Senate on Thursday took a first concrete step toward dismantling Obamacare, voting to instruct key committees to draft legislation repealing President Barack Obama’s signature health insurance program.
