Andrew Ross
Andrew Ross
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By making these kinds of investments, we're making companies across Illinois more competitive. Because the business climate is so competitive, businesses have to be able to change and react.
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I don't want to put words in Geithner's mouth, but I think he is generally against the revolving door of government officials taking jobs with companies that they have overseen or in roles that involve lobbying. At minimum, I'm pretty sure he felt that way about himself.
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Several companies have explicit policies against cronyism, with good reason. Hiring a family member simply for a relationship can be troubling and may not necessarily serve a company's interests. But by and large, financial firms in particular commonly hire people who have certain connections, whether through family or a business relationship.
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What if the slowdown in merger activity isn't cyclical, but secular? What if corporations have learned the lessons of so many companies before them that the odds of a successful merger are no better than 50-50 and probably less? Is it possible that the biggest deals have already been done?
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Corporate tax reform is nice in theory but tough in practice. It most likely requires lower tax rates and the closing of loopholes, which many companies are sure to fight. And whatever new, lower tax rate is determined, there will probably be another country willing to lower its rate further, creating a sad race to zero.
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There's a good argument to be made that companies that are private, where they're run by partnerships, where everybody has true stake in them and they're not playing with other people's money, that by default it's a safer system, because you really have skin in the game. You really own the company.
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The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have beenpresented in the entire history of television."Andrew Ross
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The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.
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These are projects that preceded this administration, ... Many were partially paid. And we're (now) in a position to meet those commitments.
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You can have two family members disrupt everything that's going on, but you can have 15 who are well behaved, and it's no problem at all.
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We put all our money in this. It's a very entrepreneurial decision.
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There is always room for improvement, and we certainly take the auditor general's analysis to heart.
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Too many of these projects were promised money without the money to cover the cost of them.
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But the other choice was to do something radically different.