Thursday, July 31, 2014
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Russian politicians take aim at global consultants – Financial Times
A group of Russian lawmakers has proposed banning the “Big Four” global accounting firms and two of the world’s largest consulting groups from the country, in a sign of growing pressure on Moscow’s economic policy makers to hit back against increased western sanctions.
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“The main targets of the restrictions are Deloitte, KPMG, Ernst & Young, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Boston Consulting Group and McKinsey,” said the proposal, seen by the Financial Times.
The lawmakers suggest labelling countries that have adopted sanctions against Russia “aggressor states”. It adds that foreign legal entities and individuals registered in aggressor states as well as their Russian affiliates should be prohibited from conducting audits and providing legal and other advisory services.
In an interview, Yevgeny Fyodorov, a deputy for the pro-Kremlin party United Russia and one of the bill’s two main authors, claimed US consulting and audit firms were working under the orders of their government and could cause “real damage” to the Russian state by purposefully giving out bad advice.
“These [US] companies have an obligation to follow their government. They have the motivation, and are under orders, to create the optimum conditions for the deterioration of life in Russia and of the Russian economy,” he said.
It is unclear whether the bill or protectionist measures along similar lines will gain support in the government or even among other members of the Duma, Russia’s lower house of parliament. But the Duma has a record of passing anti-western legislation in times of heightened tension with the US. In late 2012, a new Russian law banned US citizens from adopting Russian children in retaliation for the Magnitsky Act, US sanctions legislation against Russian officials accused of human rights violations.
Some senior executives have voiced fears that if driven to the extreme, Moscow could decide to nationalise assets of western oil companies or banks in Russia. Earlier this year, a member of the Federation Council, the upper house of parliament, said the chamber was working on a bill that would allow such confiscations in the event of western sanctions.
A Russian cabinet official familiar with economic policy called the proposed bill against foreign accountants, consultants and lawyers populist and added it was unlikely to pass. Sources at two foreign consulting groups also rejected the proposal as “nonsense”.
However, several executives at foreign law firms and consulting groups said the sector had fallen victim to political football before. “This is a demonstrative move to show patriotism and I would not be surprised if it went through, given the sentiment we have here right now,” said an American lawyer who advises Russian corporate clients on cross-border deals.
Mr Fyodorov said the proposed measures “are not reciprocal sanctions, they’re defensive ones”.
This month, Russian media reports suggested that McKinsey should be blamed for a fatal accident on the Moscow metro as McKinsey had previously been employed as a consultant by the municipal company. In 1995, Russia attempted to limit foreign law firms’ practices in the country by introducing a licence system but that was later abandoned.
Executives in the industry say Russia today has one of the most liberal regulatory regimes for foreign professional services providers.
Legal and accounting professionals said a sudden ban on foreign providers of such services would seriously impede corporate Russia from functioning because a large number of the country’s companies use offshore holding structures governed by English law.
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State Department approved 215 Bill Clinton speeches, controversial consulting … – Washington Examiner
A joint investigation by the Washington Examiner and the nonprofit watchdog group Judicial Watch found that former President Clinton gave 215 speeches and earned $48 million while his wife presided over U.S. foreign policy, raising questions about whether the Clintons fulfilled ethics agreements related to the Clinton Foundation during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state.
According to documents obtained by Judicial Watch and released Wednesday in an ongoing Freedom of Information Act case, State Department officials charged with reviewing Bill Clinton’s proposed speeches did not object to a single one.
Some of the speeches were delivered in global hotspots and were paid for by entities with business or policy interests in the U.S.
The documents also show that in June 2011, the State Department approved a consulting agreement between Bill Clinton and a controversial Clinton Foundation adviser, Doug Band.
The consultancy with Band’s Teneo Strategy ended eight months later following an uproar over Teneo’s ties to the failed investment firm MF Global.
State Department legal advisers, serving as “designated agency ethics officials,” approved Bill Clinton’s speeches in China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Panama, Turkey, Taiwan, India, the Cayman Islands and other countries.
The memos approving Mr. Clinton’s speeches were routinely copied to Cheryl Mills, Hillary Clinton’s senior counsel and chief of staff.
Mills is a longtime Clinton troubleshooter who defended the president during his impeachment. In the Benghazi affair, Mills reportedly berated a high-ranking official at the U.S. embassy in Libya for talking to a Republican congressman.
Under State Department protocols, a “designated agency ethics official” is assigned to advise the secretary of state about “potential or actual conflicts of interest.”
In a December 2008 memorandum of understanding, the protocols were expanded to Bill Clinton, the Clinton Foundation and related initiatives — specifically, to reviewing Bill Clinton’s proposed speeches and consulting deals.
In an accompanying letter to the State Department legal adviser, Clinton lawyer David Kendall noted that Bill Clinton would disclose proposed consulting deals and, for speeches, provide “the identities of the host(s) (the entity that pay the speaker’s fee)” so that the State Department “in consultation with the White House as appropriate, may conduct a review for any real or apparent conflicts of interest with the duties of the Secretary of State.”
But an inspection by the Examiner and Judicial Watch of donations to the Clinton Foundation, Hillary Clinton’s personal financial disclosure forms, and the State Department conflict-of-interest reviews shows that at least $48 million flowed to the Clintons’ personal coffers from many entities that clearly had interests in influencing the Obama administration — and perhaps currying favor with a future president as well.
Saudi Arabia, for example, was a key Clinton benefactor. The oil-producing giant has had a relationship with the Clintons dating back to Bill Clinton’s time as governor of Arkansas.
In 1992, while running for president, then-Gov. Clinton secured a $3.5 million Saudi donation for a Middle East studies program at the University of Arkansas.
A few weeks after Clinton was inaugurated president, the Saudis kicked in another $20 million. Both deals were brokered by a close Clinton friend, David Edwards.
Overall, the Clinton Foundation has received staggering sums from Saudi benefactors — between $18 million and $50 million. (The foundation’s donations are reported in ranges, not specific numbers.)
While Hillary Clinton served as secretary of state, Bill Clinton gave two speeches in Saudi Arabia, earning a total of $600,000.
In January 2011, for example, Bill Clinton spoke at a global business forum in Riyadh founded by the Saudi Investment Authority and sponsored by the Dabbagh Group, a commercial colossus with close ties to the Saudi royal family.
His fee for the speech: $300,000.
During Hillary Clinton’s time at the State Department, Bill Clinton also gave four speeches in the United Arab Emirates, earning $1.1 million. For two speeches in Egypt, he earned $425,000.
UAE-linked entities also have donated at least $2.7 to $11.5 million to the Clinton Foundation, and Egyptian entities have donated at least $250,000 to $750,000.
While the State Department did not object to Bill Clinton’s speeches in the Arab world — or anywhere else — it did turn down a proposed consultancy with a longtime Clinton friend and supporter, the Israeli-American media mogul Haim Saban.
In turning down the consultancy, a February 2009 State Department memo noted that Saban “is actively involved in foreign affairs issues, particularly with regards to the Middle East, which is a priority area for the secretary.”
The consultancy with Teneo and Band, the longtime Clinton adviser, was outlined in a June 2011 memo from Band himself, writing “on behalf of President Clinton,” to a State Department legal adviser. Bill Clinton would advise Teneo on “geopolitical, economic and social trends.”
Band requested a response within 10 business days. He got it in seven. “Please be advised that we have no objection,” the State Department wrote.
Bill Clinton also was active in China, as was Hillary Clinton, who championed the notion of a “pivot” toward Asia during her time as secretary of state.
In the period after Hillary Clinton signed the ethics agreement, Bill Clinton gave four speeches in China or to Chinese-sponsored entities in the U.S., earning $1.7 million.
By comparison, between 2001 through 2007 — just after he left office, when a former president is normally most in demand — he gave seven speeches in China, earning $1.4 million.
Groups with interests in China also donated between $750,000 and $1.75 million, at a minimum, to the Clinton Foundation.
Taiwan took an interest in Bill Clinton as well. In November 2010, he spoke on global warming and social inequality at a Taipei event sponsored by Singapore-based UNI Strategic. His fee? $400,000.
The Taiwan Economic and Cultural Office donated close to $1 million to the Clinton Foundation, and the Taiwan Mobile Foundation and a semiconductor manufacturer also contributed.
Turkish sponsors paid Bill Clinton $1 million for three speeches, including one to an Arab stock exchange.
In Russia, Bill Clinton gave two speeches for $625,000. One was to the Russian investment bank, Renaissance Capital, at a 2010 event titled “Russian and the Commonwealth of Independent States: Going Global.”
The State Department background memo described the bank as “focused on the emerging markets of Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Sub-Saharan Africa.”
The Russian Standard Bank also donated to the foundation.
In India, Bill Clinton collected $300,000 for two speeches. He also gave speeches to Indian companies and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce in Toronto, New Jersey and Disney World.
At one, a “conference on business process outsourcing/off-shoring,” hosted by an outsourcing firm, the discussion centered around “the benefits and disadvantages of outsourcing IT,” according to a State Department document.
In Panama, Bill Clinton earned $325,000 for one speech. And in the Cayman Islands — a notorious offshore money haven — $225,000 for a speech, noted a State Department document, “at a ticketed event that will target the business community in Grand Cayman.”
Editor’s note: Judicial Watch is representing the Washington Examiner in the newspaper’s federal lawsuit seeking access to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau records under FOIA.
Luke Rosiak is a senior watchdog reporter at the Washington Examiner. Micah Morrison is chief investigative reporter for Judicial Watch.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014
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Monday, July 28, 2014
China Poised to Pass U.S. as Top Business-Travel Market – Bloomberg
China is poised to displace the U.S. as the world’s biggest business-travel market by 2016, aided by accelerating export growth and slowing inflation.
Spending worldwide for business travel will climb 6.9 percent this year to $1.18 trillion, according to a report released today by the Global Business Travel Association. Growth will accelerate by an estimated 8.6 percent next year and then slow in 2016 through 2018, the GBTA forecast shows.
In China, the increasing pace of exports since mid-2013, consumer prices running below government targets and nominal wage gains that support more spending and profit growth are contributing to an expansion in the market. That contrasts with the U.S., where economic growth has been “stubbornly low,” along with employment and wages, the GBTA said.
“China, along with the other BRIC countries of Brazil, Russia and India, are leveraging their business travel expenditures into more economic opportunities,” said Michael McCormick, GBTA executive director. “We expect to see this shift in business travel spending to continue.”
Spending in Russia may fall more than 5 percent this year, the GBTA said, amid safety concerns and the international sanctions imposed on the country, triggered by the crisis in Ukraine.
Since the GBTA began its study in 1998, the U.S. has been the world’s largest business travel market, although it’s not seen the fastest expansion. While spending in China increased an average 16 percent a year since 2000 to reach $225 billion in 2013, in the U.S. it rose 1.1 percent annually to $274 billion.
Conjested Airspace
Last year, American business travelers spent $1.20 for every dollar spent by the Chinese, down from $7.70 in 2000, according to the GBTA, which analyzed travel spending in 75 countries for its study.
The projections have implications in areas as diverse as hotel construction and plane purchases by airlines, and if realized will add pressure on China’s already congested airspace, where flight delays run at about 25 percent and only 20 percent of available airspace is allotted to civil aviation.
China is expected to account for half of the increase in Asia’s commercial aircraft fleet to 10,300 in 2020 from 6,000 at the end of 2013, according to Ed Greenslet, who publishes The Airline Monitor. The U.S. fleet will grow to just over 7,200 from 6,482 in the same period, he said.
Global Hotels
The Asia-Pacific region is seeing almost double the hotel rooms being added in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and about 30 percent more than the U.S., Matthew Fry, a senior vice president at Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide Inc., said earlier this month. Many emerging markets have few globally branded hotels, and as these economies grow, demand for accommodation that meets international standards is climbing, he said.
Asia Pacific is the largest regional business travel market, followed by Western Europe and the U.S., according to the GBTA study. The three regions accounted for 89 percent, or $984 billion, of about $1.1 trillion in spending last year.
By 2018, Asia Pacific will gain another 5 percent market share, with Western Europe and the U.S. forecast to lose 2 percent and 3 percent, respectively.
To contact the reporter on this story: Mary Schlangenstein in Dallas at maryc.s@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Ed Dufner at edufner@bloomberg.net Ben Livesey, James Callan
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Sunday, July 27, 2014
What if Obama Defended American Business? – National Review Online (blog)
Just for once, wouldn’t it be great if President Obama actually defended American business, instead of attacking it?
Just once?
Wouldn’t it be great if Obama acknowledged that U.S. firms are overburdened by the highest corporate tax rate among developed countries, and as a result are becoming less and less competitive?
Wouldn’t it be great if he said he wants to fix this tax imbalance in order to grow the economy faster and give U.S. businesses a leg up on the global scene?
Couldn’t he just say that?
He could say it like this: “Look, I don’t want to drive businesses away. I want to keep businesses here. I understand the importance of business. I understand that you can’t have a good job without a thriving business. And I get that businesses require capital investment. And I understand that the investment and the business must have a high rate of return, after-tax. When that’s the case, the company expands, jobs grow, and families have more income to pay for health care, education, and the good life.”
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Instead, Obama mocks businesses. And now he’s hauling out an election-year populist whine about “economic patriotism.” He’s attacking companies that merge with foreign businesses and reincorporate in lower-tax foreign countries. It’s called inversion. And Obama wants to stop it in the name of patriotism.
In an interview with my CNBC colleague Steve Liesman, Obama talked about how businesses are ungrateful for “the range of benefits that have helped to build companies, create value, [and] create profits.” He complained that these firms are moving their “technical address simply to avoid paying taxes.”
That sounds a bit like, “If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”
But the issue isn’t avoiding all taxes. If a U.S. business reincorporates overseas it still pays the same record-breaking 35 percent tax rate on its U.S. income. The difference is that it doesn’t pay 35 percent on profits made in foreign countries. That’s the double tax it is trying to avoid.
We are the only nation that has this goofy system. And it reduces after-tax profits and renders our companies less competitive. That’s why nearly $2 trillion in cash from American companies is sitting overseas.
But Obama could turn this around in a blink. He could say, “We need that cash to grow the economy, create more jobs, and yes, to build more infrastructure. So I’m going to grant a small repatriation fee of 5 percent to bring that money back and put it to work at home.”
He could then say, “And to make American business number one, we’re gonna drop the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 20 percent — with full cash expensing for new investment –and scrap all other deductions and special credits. In other words, we’re gonna end crony capitalism and corporate welfare, just as I pledged in my 2008 campaign. And that includes the Ex-Im bank. ”
He could then say he understands from numerous studies that 70 percent of the benefits of a corporate tax cut will flow to working wage earners while the rest will flow to lower-priced consumers. And he could add that we’re going to allow pass-through S-corps and LLCs who now pay the personal tax rate to reincorporate and take advantage of the new lower C-corp rates.
And that’s when he could argue that American companies must come home and stay home.
Nobody, including myself, likes the idea of foreign-based inversions or foreign-parked cash. But corporate tax reform is the solution, not corporate punishment.
The president sometimes gives lip service to corporate tax reform. But he never follows through. There have been a dozen good proposals down through the years. But Obama keeps blaming Republicans in Congress, even though he has been completely disengaged from any serious talks about tax reform.
Five years ago Simpson-Bowles had a good corporate tax reform. The president ignored it. Democratic Senator Max Baucus developed a corporate tax-reform package when he was chair of the Senate Finance Committee. It was completely disregarded by the White House. And Republican Dave Camp, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, delivered a comprehensive tax reform that included corporations. It wasn’t perfect, but the White House overlooked that too.
And now it looks like corporate tax reform is dead again this year. The Obama Democrats will try to push through a bill to stop foreign re-incorporations. It will never pass. And they’ll keep trashing business and turning up the flame on the class-warfare burner. Divide the country and bash success. The same old tired themes.
It’s a pity. Why isn’t it patriotic to stand by large and small businesses, which are at the heart of the American free-market economy? Just this once, can’t we get the story right?
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Washington Business Report: July 27, 2014 – WJLA
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Trump Has Big Plans for D.C.
Constant camera flashes and finely tailored suits were amongst the scene at the Old Post Office in downtown D.C. on Wednesday as the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Trump International Hotel commenced. Equipped with a shovel and a smile, Donald Trump seemed eager to enter into the next phase of his redevelopment process at the Post Office. However, beautiful as the building may at present be, it is still a ways away from seeing its first guests dance in the ballroom.
“It’s going to take a lot of work, a lot of money, and a lot of imagination,” Trump explained to Rebecca Cooper in an exclusive one-on-one interview. But it is an abundance of these components that made the Trump brand so attractive to the General Services Administration during the bidding process, where they were able to beat out other hotel power players such as Hilton to acquire the prestigious property.
The Donald sees no reason that the new location in D.C. cannot join the already lengthy list of top-rated hotels that bear the Trump name in North America. And in true Trump fashion, his vision stretches to planetary proportions.
“I’m trying to make this the finest hotel anywhere in the world,” Trump proclaimed, highlighting the unmatched location on Pennsylvania Avenue and the tremendous detail of the structure. The hotel, which will cost upwards of $200 million to complete, will open in mid-2016.
New app aims to prevent tragedies like Virginia Tech shooting
In the aftermath of a tragedy, those directly affected often wonder what could have prevented it from happening. Safety app LiveSafe wants to help its users avoid potentially tragic situations.
Based in Rosslyn, Virginia, one of LiveSafe’s co-founders is a survivor herself. Kristina Anderson, who was shot during the second spree of the Virginia Tech shootings in 2007, believes there should have been a way to help prevent what happened.
The app allows users to crowdsource suspicious activity, LiveSafe CEO Jenny Abramson told Washington Business Report.
“A lot of time what we deal with is between doing nothing and calling 911,” she explained. With LiveSafe, users can connect with safety officials, send photos, and even track the whereabouts of others in their network. LiveSafe works in collaboration with campus safety departments at colleges across the nation and other various organizations and communities.
The use and enormous growth potential of the app has certainly been noticed. IAC, which is behind Match.com, Tinder, and other services, is the main investor of LiveSafe.
Business Roundtable tackles controversy over corporate inversions
With nine corporate inversions having occurred this year, everyone seems to have something to say about the topic—including President Obama.
Inversions, which occur when American companies buy or merge with foreign companies in order to enjoy lower corporate tax rates, have faced harsh criticism, even being called “unpatriotic.” But Jonathan Aberman, principal of Amplifier Ventures, does not think companies should feel any obligation to be patriotic.
“They don’t have to be patriotic. We get a lot of benefits from doing business in the United States, and to be asked to stay here to pay taxes—that’s a valued judgement.”
Peter Morici of the Robert H. Smith School of Business also came to the defense of companies who have completed corporate inversions. He told Washington Business Report that these companies have a responsibility to their shareholders to seek such opportunities.
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Mortgage Recruiting and Consulting Firm, AnikimCreditCorp.Com, Releases … – DigitalJournal.com
>PRWEB.COM NewswireRiverside, California (PRWEB) July 27, 2014
AnikimCreditCorp.com has just recently expanded their real estate marketing efforts into more cities in Riverside County California. The real estate marketing firm connects the top agents with mortgage loan officers through marketing videos and webpages that the company creates, and then releases on the internet. The firm also recruits potential candidates online by hiring the search engine optimization experts to help them rank for multiple key phrases in the mortgage and real estate industry. The marketing company also uses Social media websites, video campaigns, and banking forums to assist the company to help with acquiring new clients. The mortgage banking consultants are always looking for industry professionals seeking net branch opportunities to partner them with one the firm’s direct lending partners. The consulting firm continues its expansion online and in Riverside and throughout the lending community looking for qualified candidates. The new marketing campaign launched by the firm focusing on the Temecula Valley area, the newest PPC, social media and videos are sure to bring in more buyers and sellers of real estate. To learn how to apply for a home loan first time buyer in Temecula California, contact the firm directly and they will submit your information to a home loan specialist.
Interested parties can find videos for specific areas in Riverside, at “Temecula real estate agent”, and “sell my house in Temecula”. The mortgage consulting company is well-known for promoting products on video sharing sites, especially in Riverside and San Diego. The company helps drive interested borrowers to loan originators waiting to assist them. Those clients are then connected with the top Realtors in their area to help find them a home. The company has had great success in finding and creating these relationships in multiple cities and believes Westminster and Stanton, in Riverside, will be no different. The top producers in any industry want to work with the best, and by placing the top Realtors with the best mortgage banker it’s a definite win, win for the borrower.
AnikimCreditCorp.com’s program is available to all mortgage bankers, community banks, credit unions and regional banks in all 50 States. The consulting firm helps mortgage professionals from critical investors, overly strict guidelines or credit overlays. Kevin Leonard, mortgage expert was quoted, “we help mortgage bankers sell loans that have any type of issues, from agency approved loans that were kicked for some reason, to true scratch and dent loans.” The mortgage banker uses wholesale distributors of exclusive and services that provide affordable leads to loan originators. Having the access to these resources can assist loan officers tremendously, and the company has the best contacts in the industry. There are not many mortgage bankers looking to hire loan officers the way that the firm’s California partners are looking to do.
The company offers the best first time home buyer lenders in Riverside that can provide and approval for a home loan off basic borrower information. The company is adding new relationships every week and has built a substantial network of industry professionals. The firm also works with brokers that are looking to go, and don’t know how to make the broker to banker transition, and offers them access to the top warehouse line providers. By working with the smallest brokers to the largest lenders, the company is able to assist in many ways that many firms cannot. They are able to bridge the gap in many cases for mortgage professionals looking to grow their business. To learn more about the firm, or the services they provide, contact the company directly and speak with an acquisition executive. Interested parties can also visit Kevin Leonard a mortgage Riverside home loans provider at, http://ift.tt/1q4z1OZ
About the company: AnikimCreditCorp.com was started after the mortgage crisis to help struggling loan officers and net branches find mortgage banks that were able to sustain through the tough times. Kevin Leonard from New World Mortgage, former owner of a large mortgage banking company, has many relationships with lenders and brokers throughout the county, and helps place mortgage loan officers with jobs and mortgage net branch companies. The company also helps connect some of their banker clients with scratch and dent mortgage buyers to help clear bankers warehouse lines.
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Saturday, July 26, 2014
Todd Mitchem Consulting to conduct cannabis business workshops in early fall – News-Medical.net
Todd Mitchem Consulting, in conjunction with Cannabrand, the first full-service recreational cannabis marketing agency, will present “I Choose Cannabis and Business” workshops slated for five cities in September and October 2014.
Cannabrand recently teamed up with Todd Mitchem, who has consulted for Colorado-based cannabis businesses including O.penVAPE, as well as well-known corporations such as Starbucks, Purina, Marriott, H&R Block, Pizza Hut, Google and Nestle. Targeting everyone curious about the industry, from entrepreneurs to investors, Mitchem and the Cannabrand team will share insider information on trends, business processes and legal operations.
With expertise in industry building and accelerating brand growth, Mitchem will lead the presentation and cover topics such as creating a sustainable company structure, constructing scalable processes, requirements for building a national brand in cannabis as well as understanding the unique intricacies of public relations, government relations and personnel management.
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“These hands on workshops will appeal to any person curious about the future of this industry, investors wondering what to look for in a possible investment opportunity, or anyone looking to break into the movement of mainstream cannabis business,” Mitchem said. “I welcome anyone looking to break into the mainstream cannabis movement which is a big business with an anticipated $2.5 billion market value by the end of 2014.”
Upcoming Dates and Locations:
September 3 – Miami, FL
September 11 – Columbus, OH
September 16 – Las Vegas, NV
September 25 – Orlando, FL
October 1 – New York, NY
Mitchem, and CannaBrand will conduct five-hour interactive workshops that will incorporate multi-media, market scans, case studies and the latest regulatory information.
“We will be teaching lessons from our experience in marketing within the context of the cannabis industry, and sound business practices that change daily as we all settle the new frontier of this expanding industry,” said Jennifer DeFalco of Cannabrand. Co-Founder Olivia Mannix added, “We are really excited to share our passion for the I Choose Cannabis movement alongside Todd, and we promise an entertaining and informative event.”
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Friday, July 25, 2014
US business spending data gives mixed signals on growth – Reuters UK
Washers and dryers are seen on display at a store in New York July 28, 2010.
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(Reuters) – A mixed reading on the health of U.S. business investment on Friday suggested the economy may not have rebounded as strongly in the second quarter as previously believed, but it offered hope for the rest of 2014.
Non-defense capital goods orders excluding aircraft, a closely watched proxy for business spending plans, rebounded 1.4 percent after declining by a downwardly revised 1.2 percent the prior month, the Commerce Department said.
However, shipments of these so-called core capital goods fell 1.0 percent. Core capital goods shipments are used to calculate equipment spending in the government’s gross domestic product measurement.
It was the third month of decline in shipments, prompting some economists to temper their second-quarter growth estimates.
“The weak performance in core capital goods shipments during the quarter suggests that this segment of the economy is unlikely to contribute much to economic activity,” said Millan Mulraine, deputy chief economist at TD Securities in New York.
Morgan Stanley trimmed its second-quarter growth estimate by one-tenth of percentage point to a 3.2 percent annual rate, while JPMorgan lowered its forecast to 2.6 percent from 2.7 percent.
The government will release its first snapshot of second-quarter GDP next Wednesday. The economy contracted at a 2.9 percent rate in the first three months of the year, with business spending on equipment falling at a 2.8 percent rate.
But the swing back in core capital goods orders last month offered hope for growth in the third quarter. That trend, if sustained would be a boost to growth.
In addition, unfilled core capital goods orders increased a solid 1.2 percent after rising 0.5 percent in May.
“The momentum in core orders in the second quarter bodes well for equipment and software spending in the second half of the year,” said Michael Gapen, a senior economist at Barclays in New York.
MAY ORDERS REVISED DOWN
Some economists, however, worry that business investment might not pick up much because of the sharp downward revision to May’s core capital goods orders from the previously reported 0.7 percent increase.
“The weakness late in the quarter implies a soft trajectory for capital spending heading into the third quarter,” said Michael Feroli, an economist at JPMorgan in New York.
“All in all, it’s nice to see that capital expenditure has rebounded from its first-quarter hole, but the latest data do nothing to indicate that capital spending is about to shift into higher gear.”
Other details of the report painted a fairly upbeat picture of manufacturing, consistent with other data on factory activity. Orders for long-lasting manufactured goods increased 0.7 percent in June as demand increased from transportation to machinery and computers and electronic products.
The increase in orders for these goods, which range from toasters to aircraft that are meant to last three years or more, followed a 1.0 percent drop in May.
Unfilled orders for durable goods rose 0.8 percent last month after rising 0.7 percent in May, showing a building up of backlogs that will keep the nation’s factories busy for a while.
Durable goods inventories rose 0.4 percent. That supports views inventories would be a boost to second-quarter growth. A slow pace of inventory accumulation was behind the sharp contraction in output in the first quarter.
“It is further encouragement that the economy will return to growth in the second quarter and should continue to be strong through the remainder of 2014,” said Tim Quinlan, an economist at Wells Fargo Securities in Charlotte, North Carolina.
(Reporting by Lucia Mutikani; Editing by Andrea Ricci)
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Republicans attack Democrats for their wealth and business experience – CBS News
This article originally appeared on Slate.
The minute David Perdue won the Republican primary in Georgia, Democrats hit send on an email attacking his business career. At nearly 2,500 words, the blast arrived in my inbox from American Bridge, a liberal opposition research firm, outlining the jobs Perdue had cut and outsourced as a business executive. “Georgia, Meet Mitt Romney Lite,” was the headline.
Voters say they want politicians with a business background. In a recent Gallup poll, 81 percent responded that the country would be better governed if more people with business and management experience were elected. Voters prioritized that attribute far above every other. But that finding may only be a sign of the chasm between campaigning and governing, because while voters may like the idea of electing executives who have experience making tough decisions, campaign strategists see an opportunity to use those same decisions to portray candidates as callous, out-of-touch, and ignorant of middle-class needs.
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In Georgia, Democrats are using the Romney boogeyman in an echo of the campaign the Obama team used to win the 2012 presidential election. That’s hardly surprising. What is more surprising is that Republican campaigns across the country are adopting the same Obama tactics against Democrats.
In Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker has been attacking the business record of his opponent, former Trek bicycle executive, Mary Burke. The Walker campaign ran an ad claiming that Burke made millions by shipping jobs overseas to countries where the minimum wage was as low as $2 an hour. Walker says it’s hypocritical since Burke is pushing for a minimum wage hike in Wisconsin. Another ad labels her an “outsourcer” and spells her name “Mary $ Burke.” President Obama and his allies made similar claims about Romney. Walker claimed Trek paid no corporate income taxes, an echo of Sen. Harry Reid’s unfounded smear about Romney.
Burke’s brother responded on behalf of the company in a full-page newspaper ad. He said he and not his sister, who ran the European division of the company, made decisions about where to locate jobs. Trek employs 1,000 workers in Wisconsin and 800 people outside the country, according to the company. Burke has tried to turn the attacks against Walker, saying that if he understood the way business works, he would understand that Wisconsin companies like Trek and Harley-Davidson need to manufacture around the world and that Trek pays taxes like many other businesses, where the owners pay taxes on the company’s profits as individuals rather than through corporate taxes.
A candidate’s business record is totally fair game, but attacks on business activity can quickly melt into a general attack on wealth. That’s certainly happening in Wisconsin. The state’s GOP is calling Burke “Millionaire Mary,” says she is a member of the “1 percent,” and posted pictures of her second home on a website devoted to making an issue of her wealth. In Pennsylvania, Republicans have also stapled net worth to the Democratic candidate for governor, who they refer to as “Millionaire Tom Wolf.”
These attacks are not subtle. Using dollar signs, bags of money, and millionaire as a pejorative plays to gut level resentments about wealth. “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander,” says a campaign strategist involved in GOP opposition research. But the question for Republicans who use these tactics is not whether they are fair–rather the issue is one of ideological consistency. These attacks buy into and seek to profit from the idea that there is something immediately suspicious about a person of wealth. Usually conservatives label those tactics as un-American, charging that such appeals are seeking to penalize success.
If Republicans contribute to the claim that wealth is equated with not caring about the poor, then the GOP, as the party most associated with the wealthy, runs the risk of blowback. A CNN poll earlier this year asked which party favored the rich, and respondents answered by 69 percent to 30 percent that the Republicans did. Republicans already have a deficit with voters when it comes to questions about which party cares about the problems of regular people. In a CBS poll in May, Democrats outpolled Republicans by 10 points when asked which party cared about people like you and which party was more likely to help Americans get a fair chance to get ahead. That is why so many 2016 GOP presidential contenders areworking to show that the Republican Party has a compassionate side.
Republicans making an issue of wealth is not unlike Republicans criticizing Democrats for cutting taxes. That’s why the Wall Street Journal called out Newt Gingrich and others during the 2012 GOP primary for attacking Romney’s career with “crude and damaging caricatures of modern business and capitalism.” Recently, Allysia Finley, also in the Wall Street Journal, rebuked Walker on the same terms. “Economic populism is usually the province of Democrats who don’t understand how free markets work or who cynically hope to exploit voters’ insecurities. Mr. Walker is better than that.”
Republicans used the anti-Romney playbook last year in the Virginia governor’s race, trying to make Terry McAuliffe’s business career an issue, but the attacks didn’t work. Charges of this sort work best when they support an underlying story about the candidate or his policies. Mitt Romney contributed to the characterization that he was disconnected from those in the middle class and most in need, most notably with the videotaped comments about the 47 percent who weren’t likely to vote for him. When he picked Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate, someone who had also taken a dim view of those who used government services, it strengthened the connection in voter minds between wealth and stinginess. The 2012 exit poll found 53 percent said Romney’s policies generally favored the rich, 34 percent the middle class, and 2 percent the poor; for Obama, just 10 percent thought his policies favored the rich, 44 percent the middle class, and 31 percent the poor.
Republican Party officials have been relentless in attacking Hillary Clinton for her wealth since she claimed that she and her husband were “dead broke” after they left the White House. (They weren’t). Poorhillaryclinton.com launched this week. If this tactic gains traction, it might not be because it incites envy, but because it suggests she’s trying to pretend to be something she’s not, which goes to alongstanding weakness she has had on issues of honesty and trustworthiness.
Romney’s career at Bain Capital was an easier career to demagogue because venture capitalism is associated with Wall Street bankers–who are never popular (especially after a recession caused by risky financial instruments). Walker is taking a risk attacking a popular Wisconsin company, and his administration wasn’t always concerned about Trek’s outsourcing: They once touted the company, which Burke’s father started in a barn, as a sterling example of the state’s entrepreneurs and business success.
Before David Perdue won the Georgia GOP Senate primary, Democratic strategists were hoping to run against his Republican rival, Jack Kingston, a veteran congressman. It would be easier to run against his Washington insider status, they thought. Now they’ll have to run against Perdue as a fat cat. They’ve got a head start. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee put out a two-minute video attacking Perdue as an out of touch millionaire and crony capitalist who punished workers and walked away with millions. It simply quotes his GOP primary opponents.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014
Tax structure allows Detroit to remain competitive attracting business – MLive.com
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Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, center, meets with North American International Auto Show Chairman Bob Shuman, left, and Phil Bockhorn of Chrysler Group LLC, right, as he tours the auto show in Detroit, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014. The industrial city is looking to climb out from under decades of financial decline as its longtime industry revs ahead four years after two of its major players, General Motors and Chrysler, emerged from bankruptcies of their own. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio) (Carlos Osorio)
Detroit may tax its residents at high rates compared with other Michigan cities. But its tax policies aren’t a deal breaker for business, according to a 2014 report by a national accounting and consulting firm.
Compared with 50 other major international cities, Detroit is ranked 21st most business friendly in terms of overall corporate tax burden – worse than Cleveland and Minneapolis, among the 31 American cities on the list, but easier on businesses than Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco and Dallas. Among the U.S. cities, Detroit ranked No. 12.
For businesses considering a move or expansion in Detroit, taxes aren’t the first concern. The bigger issues revolve around logistics, access to talent, research and development, and labor costs, said Olga Stella, vice president for business development for the Detroit Economic Development Corp.
“We rarely come across a business where the first question is ‘what’s your tax structure?’” she said.
The accounting and consulting firm KMPG looked at corporate income taxes, property taxes, capital taxes, sales taxes, local business taxes and labor costs. It created a “Total Tax Index” for each city to gauge annual average tax costs over the first 10 years of a business.
By that measure, Detroit fared better than the U.S. benchmark of 100, scoring a 90. New York City scored the worst, with a 111.8 on the index.
Helping Detroit are incentives available in specific areas, including downtown. Depending on location and type of business, the city and state can reward a new business with massive write-downs of almost all taxes for up to 15 years.
Some of the incentives that keep Detroit competitive, however, have led to complaints. Activists have chided city and state leaders for offering tax abatements to incoming businesses and they’ve been a major issue for critics of the public-private deals to build the city’s professional sports stadiums, an issue already arising with plans for a new Red Wings arena.
The KMPG report, “Competitive Alternatives, Special Report: Focus on Tax,” also looked at how different sectors fared since each city and state may have different tax policies on different services, like utilities and personal property. Detroit moved up and down compared with the 50 other international cities depending on the sector:
- Research and Development – 12th
- Corporate services – 16th
- Manufacturing – 22nd
- Digital services – 21st (tie)
Among a broader range of cities, Detroit was about middle of the pack as well, ranking 39th of 74 cities reviewed, including Saginaw, which had a slightly more favorable tax climate.
The Detroit Economic Growth Corporation can also offer help with workforce development, property tax abatements and loans.
For the DEGC, the KMPG study could help open the door to those companies that are considering a move yet take Detroit out of the running without even contacting local officials, Stella said. It could provide an opportunity to pitch the city as a viable destination, Stella said.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Kennedy Sees Global Consulting Markets Normalizing; Growth Rates Increasing … – MarketWatch
KEENE, N.H., Jul 23, 2014 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Kennedy Consulting Research & Advisory, the leader in market analysis on the consulting profession, announces the launch of Global Consulting Market Index 2013 . Released annually, and featuring a wealth of expanded content, the report provides detailed analysis of consulting market trends world-wide.
“Kennedy saw growth in the global consulting market drop from 4.3% in 2012 to 3.7% in 2013, surpassing $221 billion in revenues,” according to Lasse Pitkaeniemi, Project Lead and Kennedy’s Director of Market Research. “After years of engagements focused on cost-cutting, recovery and turn-around, client organizations are in 2014 finally returning to growth initiatives. Kennedy is tracking a resurgence in M&A advisory and the emergence of services around customer-centric digital technologies and business behavior. This bodes well for more robust overall growth in the profession this year.”
Global Consulting Market Index 2013 also identifies that, for the fourth consecutive year, Kennedy Consulting Research & Advisory ranks Deloitte (Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited member firms) number one in both global consulting and management consulting based on aggregate revenue.
This seminal analysis details consulting market size and forecasted growth rates across geographic markets (North America, APAC, EMEA, Latin America) and consulting service area (Strategy and Operations, Human Resources, Financial Consulting, IT Consulting), and analysis of client industry-specific markets.
In addition, readers will find market share and rankings of the world’s largest consulting firms, their development and competitive dynamics, accompanied by analysis of their respective strengths and weaknesses. Firms covered in the research include:
Accenture; Alvarez & Marsal; Aon Hewitt; A.T. Kearney; Atos; Bain & Company; Baker Tilly; BDO International; Booz & Company; Booz Allen Hamilton; The Boston Consulting Group; Capgemini; CSC; Deloitte; EY; FTI Consulting; Grant Thornton; HP Consulting; IBM; KPMG; McKinsey & Company; Mercer; Oliver Wyman Group; Praxity; PwC; Roland Berger; Sapient; and Towers Watson
Market share and rankings include:
20 Largest Global and Management (Strategy & Operations, HR) Consulting Providers
10 Largest Financial and IT Consulting Providers
The Largest Non-Management Consulting Providers by Segment
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Kennedy’s research spans multiple service areas, client vertical industries, and geographies. Our analysts provide expert commentary at consulting industry events world-wide, and offer custom research for Management Consulting and IT Services firms.
Kennedy’s advisory services provide results-oriented strategic guidance to buyers and sellers of consulting services.
Our clientele consists of Fortune 500 companies and the most highly regarded professional services firms in the world.
Kennedy’s parent company, Bloomberg BNA, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bloomberg L.P., is a leading source of legal, regulatory, and business information for professionals.
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Consultant Development Program from Stoltenberg Consulting Yields … – The Providence Journal
PITTSBURGH, July 22, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Stoltenberg Consulting, a leading healthcare information technology (HIT) consulting firm, today announced thirteen consultants having graduated from its Consultant Development Program to date. The program, designed to provide hospitals with first-time, certified consultants, continues to deliver cost-effective results to the company’s hospital customers. The consultants in the program, titled Consultant I’s, undergo rigorous training and work closely with Stoltenberg’s team of experienced consultants on projects.
The 2013 HIMSS Workforce Survey indicated that 31 percent of healthcare organizations had to place IT initiatives on hold due to staffing shortages with 43 percent citing the lack of a qualified talent pool as a challenge to appropriately meeting their staffing needs. The demand remains high for a capable workforce in the healthcare technology industry; to date, hospitals that have leveraged Consultant I’s have seen over 25 percent increase in cost savings on IT implementation projects, with the value and contributions of the consultants adding to an even greater overall ROI.
“Considering staffing shortages, limited budgets and a lack of qualified talent in the hiring pool, hospitals are clearly suffering from a shortage of effective IT skills and expertise on projects, without any ideal solution in sight,” said Sheri Stoltenberg, CEO, Stoltenberg Consulting. “The Consultant Development Program is able to address such challenges from every angle by providing cost-effective, highly competent team members that not only deliver the necessary results for hospitals at a critical time in healthcare, but also contribute to a strong job market that supports the advancement of health IT.”
Recent graduates of the Consultant Development Program gained considerable experience through direct involvement in implementation and optimization projects in hospitals around the country, allowing them to establish expertise in clinical, ambulatory, document management and financial areas. Overall, the Consultant I’s spent more than 2,000 hours in training for projects, nearly 9,000 hours on projects and over 15,000 hours serving the help desk service line from Stoltenberg, over the two-year program.
Said a graduate of the program: “There are very few paths in health IT that offer significant hands-on training and opportunities to young professionals. By working closely with a senior consultant from Stoltenberg, I was able to hone important skills at the end-user level while gradually developing experience with Soarian Clinicals Documentation building and CPOE. Programs that offer valuable lessons and opportunities, such as the Consultant Development Program, can be key in changing the perception of a career in health IT to be more attractive for young professionals.”
Previous graduates of the Consultant Development Program have become fully active team members, and in some cases, team leads on IT projects within hospitals across the country. Mentoring provided by senior consultants have allowed the Consultant I’s to far exceed expectations normally set for young HIT professionals.
“I started this program with minimal experience, but by the end, I had gained certain insights in health IT I may have otherwise only learned through multiple years in the industry. From formal vendor training for multiple certifications, to my time taking calls for a university healthcare system with the Stoltenberg Help Desk Service Line, the program greatly prepared me for working and genuinely helping end-users,” said another graduate. “The Consultant Development Program provides a rare opportunity to uniquely groom young HIT professionals for success and I look forward to seeing what is to come from the program in the future.”
To learn more about the Consultant Development Program, please click here or visit www.stoltenberg.com.
About Stoltenberg Consulting Founded in 1995, Pittsburgh-based Stoltenberg Consulting Inc. creates an environment for success by working with healthcare organizations to provide a variety of services including project management, implementation support and integration between systems. Members of the Stoltenberg Consulting team are consultants with extensive experience in both financial and clinical systems, averaging more than 15 years of direct on-site hospital experience. A two-time Best in KLAS Category Leader, Stoltenberg Consulting has grown rapidly to serve a client base of more than 200 preeminent healthcare organizations throughout the United States providing services for Siemens (Approved Partner), Epic (Preferred Partner), Cerner, McKesson, Meditech, NextGen and Allscripts customers. For more information call 1-888-724-1326 or visit www.stoltenberg.com.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Monday, July 21, 2014
Chamber Report: We're small business — and we vote – Florida Today
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